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...father is living in this up-country section-his residence for thirty years -in its most Communist-infested area. He has escaped from the Communists twice within the last twelve months, once in one of Chiang Kai-shek's military planes-piloted by a young Iowan-and once afoot, mere yards ahead of the Red vanguard. His latest letter, dated in January, warns me that despite all I may read, "no Communist army has yet been defeated in Kweichow:" the Reds countermarch where they please, occasionally withdrawing before the National army, never embarrassed by it. In short, the whole...
...managed to elect a judge of their own choosing, Landscapist Frederic Tellander of Chicago. Great was their chagrin when Judge Tellander looked over the lot, selected River Bend by Marvin Cone, art instructor at Coe College, Cedar Rapids. Good friend of famed Grant Wood, Artist Cone showed that eminent Iowan's stylistic influence. River Bend was a sweep of stream and a bent road over a round hill nibbled at the bottom by a quarry, all huddled under a low sky of close-flapping clouds. On Manhattan's 57th Street it would have delighted dilettantes. But Iowa "Conservatives" sent...
Tent City. The carnival is not Iowan; the auto racers and rodeo folk are not Iowan; the best horseshoe pitcher is not Iowan; the livestock is not all Iowan. But the people who go to the Fair are Iowa itself, in all its friendliness, power, vulgarity and genius. And the place to see them best is in the Tent City, a unique colony pitched in a rolling, wooded 100-acre plot adjoining the Fair Grounds. These visitors, 10,000 strong, appear at the Fair year after year, are its backbone. They bring their own tents and by some informal right...
...land prices in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming up as much as 33% from last year. More than 50% of buyers are bona fide settlers. A farm near Omaha lately sold for $155 per acre, a half-section in Sac County, Iowa for $135 per acre. A northern Iowan reported an offer of $110 per acre for land he lately bought...
...established in 1909 by Mrs. Charles Elliott Perkins, in memory of her husband. Of the four, one is awarded to a resident of Iowa living in that part of the state now served by the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad. A second is given to a student in any Iowan high school whatsoever. The last two are for graduates of any Iowan college or university who are now doing work at one of the Harvard Graduate or Professional Schools. Announcement of the awarding of the other three scholarships has not yet been made...