Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most interesting shows in the U.S. last week was a sleeper, a little-heralded exhibition of pictures by 24 Berlin artists. Sponsored by the American Federation of Arts, the show opened in Louisville; it will tour the country, stopping mostly in smaller cities, e.g., Iowa City, San Jose, Calif, and Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Some big-city museums which did not hear of the show till it arrived are dickering...
Wrestling captain elect Johnny Lee yesterday dropped a decision to Iowa State Teachers' John Harrison in the opening round of the 123-pound class matches in the National Collegiate wrestling championships at Lehigh Lee was decisively heaten 6 to 1 Iowa States is the defending champion in the meet...
Three days later, while Dr. Alway waited in Hot Springs, Ark., Mrs. Alway, still coatless, boarded another Mid-Continent plane, this time a DC-3, to fly back home for a new wardrobe. Less than an hour later, the plane headed in for a landing at the Sioux City, Iowa airport in a driving snowstorm, crashed and burst into flames. Rescuers pulled ten passengers safely from the wreckage. But among the 15 trapped in the flaming debris was Mrs. James Alway...
...runs all this started out to be a chemist. Later George Stoddard switched to psychology, went to the University of Paris in 1921 and got fascinated by the work of the famous Alfred Binet (intelligence tests). It was as a tester and child psychologist, at the University of Iowa, that Stoddard made his first reputation. In 1942 he switched again, to administration. Before Illinois summoned him to the $20,000-a-year president's job, he was a dean at Iowa and, for four wartime years, New York State's commissioner of education...
Died. Lewis Herold Brown, 57, onetime Iowa farm boy who worked his way through the State University of Iowa, was an infantry captain in World War I, began his postwar career as a $15-a-week salesman, rose in eight years to assistant manager of all Montgomery Ward plants. At 33, he joined the $150 million Johns-Manville Corp., two years later became its president; of a heart attack; in Delray Beach...