Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guard Interference. In Des Moines, the lucky winner of the Register's "You Pick 'Em" football-score contest, for which he received two free 50-yard-line tickets to the Iowa-Wisconsin football game, was Fort Madison (Iowa) Penitentiary Prisoner...
...dull they fascinate me. I guess I never told you about my Epic of Nanook bit this summer, did I?" He began stirring his ice briskly and his eyes brightened with a nostalgic glaze. "You know how simple most of the people working in the hotel were--these Iowa farm girls and Utah types--really from the sticks. Well, I told them I was majoring in Eskimo Studies at Harvard. They weren't very impressed and I guess they even thought I was queer--there's not much to Eskimos, as I said. But they believed me. Then I told...
...because the story couldn't really hurt anyone. When those girls got back to Utah or Iowa they would have told their mothers about Nanook and the shining cities. After that, their mothers would have told their husbands, and the husbands probably would have told their friends. Just think of what it could have done for the Eskimo's reputation...
...while thousands of waving spectators roared hoarsely, Roberts climbed into a Thomas Flyer, yanked down his goggles and dusted out of Times Square, pitted against five other massive autos in the first New York-to-Paris-via-the-West auto race. Surviving mud burials in Iowa, sandstorms in Montana, Roberts left his car mates in San Francisco, and they brought the battered Thomas-"the best car in the world in 1908"-into Paris on July 30, 26 days ahead of its nearest competitor (three of the six made the finish...