Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most obvious mistake in Preminger's Joan is Preminger's Joan-a charming, shrinking young girl named Jean Seberg, aged 18, whom the director "discovered," according to the picture's panting publicity, in the vicinity of Marshalltown, Iowa. Actress Seberg, with the advantage of youth, the disadvantage of inexperience, is drastically miscast. Shaw's Joan is a chunk of hard brown bread, dipped in the red wine of battle and devoured by ravenous angels. Actress Seberg, by physique and disposition, is the sort of honey bun that drugstore desperadoes like to nibble with their milk shakes...
...paratrooper on the line was Private Wayne Flugum, 23, a supply clerk from Leland. Iowa, making his ninth jump. Now he dangled spread-eagled in the rushing, punishing torrent of the plane's slipstream and propwash. Air Force Lieutenant Thomas Ansberry took the C-123 up from 1,600 to 3,000 ft., let down flaps, slowed his plane to about 70 knots. With two crewmen the copilot went aft to try to pull on the slick, virtually gripless static line (two-inch wide, ribbon-thin nylon webbing) against the dead weight of Paratrooper Flugum...
...golden ears in exhaust fumes, cocktail onions.and punched commuters' tickets, cornfed Author Richard Bissell, who came east from Iowa to write the smash Broadway hit Pajama Game, decided to abandon Connecticut's exurbian lotus groves, take a summer's furlough in his native Dubuque. His reason: "The East seems to have a corner on the phony market. These characters are afraid they might be caught not knowing something. Some of these advertising guys-real phonies-would be better off running a gas station. You've got people going to the theater here simply because they ought...
...Beaches. In Myrtle Beach, S.C., local boosters succeeded in a nationwide search for a living namesake by finding Mrs. Myrtle Beach of Fort Madison, Iowa, mother of three - Sandy, Marshy and Rocky...
...Master's Tools. Engle, a lanky figure with penetrating blue eyes and an awesome store of energy, grew up in Cedar Rapids, just 24 miles away. He graduated magna cum laude from Iowa's Coe College in 1931, took his master's at Iowa City and in 1932 won the annual prize of the Yale Series of Younger Poets with his first book of poems, Worn Earth. Later he went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, tended wicket and pulled an oar for Merton College, returned to Iowa in 1937 to start shaping poets...