Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe that we can make a poet out of a sow's ear," says Poet-Professor Paul Engle, "not even in Iowa, where we've got some damn fine sows' ears." But Paul Engle, 48, professor of English at the State University of Iowa in Iowa City, has fashioned the best workshop in the nation for young poets in an area surrounded by cows and corn...
Zealous Recruiter. For 20 years Iowa-born Poet Engle has fanned the thin flame of poetry down on the farm. He is helped by the fact that the university gives advanced degrees-including a doctorate-in creative writing. Armed with this selling point, Engle recruits fledgling poets with the zeal of a Big Ten football coach wooing a high-school halfback. He gets them jobs on campus, finds them apartments, has even supplied pots and pans for their wives...
...Only Ohio and West Virginia have replaced Democratic governors with Republicans. Democrats have ousted Republicans from the statehouses of Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington...
...Better 'Ole. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Gordon Davis, jailed on a drunkenness charge, was released on $50 bond posted by his wife, who began giving him such a tongue-lashing that three minutes after leaving he slunk back in, begged, ''Give her back her money, I'd rather stay in jail," was locked up for the night...
...week, Nieman-Marcus of Texas will spend more than $250,000 on lavish circus-theme extravaganzas for its stores in Dallas and Houston, will cover floors with sawdust, fill windows with monkeys, send clowns cavorting among customers. To publicize Eagle Food Centers, a grocery chain with 29 supermarkets in Iowa and neighboring states, Joe Louis was hired last week to demonstrate basic boxing blows in rings set up in the chain's parking lots, give inspirational talks to young customers, stressing right living and good (i.e., Eagle) eating. Ex-champ Louis will get about $1,000 per show, while...