Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Presbyterian Church Armstrong, Iowa...
...students must pass stiff written and oral exams and write a "Bachelor's essay." In 1954 when the program began, only one student tried it (his special interest: a comparative theology study of Tillich and Maritain). Today there are ten. ¶ Last fall Iowa's Grinnell College started "four-three" program to permit certain students to earn a fourth credit for extra independent work done in special three-hour courses. Though neither professors nor students are entirely satisfied with the program, it at .least has forced the library to double the number of books it buys each year...
...stories which carry the baptism-by-life theme into young manhood are told by a nameless narrator who is serving as a seaman aboard tramp freighters. These show traces of the fogbound, soul-bedeviled yarns that Eugene O'Neill spun in his early one-acters. But what Iowa-born Author Kentfield brings to his best stories, beyond the knack for telling them well, is a front-porch vision of small-town life, talk, fears and dreams as authentic as the creak of the rocker that serves as the observation post...
...Glen B. Miller, 62, moved up from vice president of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp., third largest U.S. chemical company in sales, to president, succeeding Fred J. Emmerich, who was made board chairman. Miller went to State University of Iowa as a chemistry student just before World War I, quit classes temporarily to work for Hercules Powder Co. in New Jersey, helping to develop a smokeless powder. Long hours of working with acid-burned hands convinced him that the front office was more to his liking. Back at college, he boned up on economics as well as chemistry, graduated...
There seems to be some agreement however, that Davey Nelson, coach at Delaware, is the strongest candidate. A former Crimson assistant, Nelson's teams in nine years have won 53, lost 17, and tied four. He has been associated with Iowa and Maine teams in addition to his present position...