Word: lowan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Oona. He had flown into Los Angeles saying, "I have come in the interests of peace." California was not like the Middle West, which had received its native lowan for the most part with austere interest. In Hollywood, pink-hued stars turned out to welcome him with huzzas. Film Director William Wyler entertained him. A capacity crowd of 30,000 filled Gilmore Stadium to cheer him. Contributions rolled in. Charlie Chaplin's wife Oona signed a check...
When Ted was a sophomore at the State University of Iowa, his father went broke in the postwar crash of land prices. Gallup made his own way with a towel service in the college locker room, later as editor of the Daily lowan. He transformed the lowan from a routine college puff sheet into a paper with national news. He began to get interested in why people read certain stories-and how many and which ones they actually do read. After graduation he stayed on at Iowa as a graduate student in psychology...
...eared, sardonic lowan of 42, Harvard cum laude Author Duncan spent ten years on Gus the Great and was nearly broke much of the time. An itinerant writer, teacher and Chautauqua actor, he is the author of three previous novels, all poor sellers. He retired to a trailer to finish Gus the Great, wandering through the West and Southwest. When the money ran low, Duncan hacked out short stories on a 1924 Corona; his wife, Actea, took a secretarial job. The Duncans' first purchase with their new riches: a shiny new Chrysler convertible...
...right, fellows, snap out of it," wrote Coed Ivamae ("Tommie") Bendt in the Daily lowan. "Your prewar manners need a little brushing up. You're no longer the fair-haired boys the war has made you. Girls like to have doors opened for them, to be called respectable names and to be treated with what chivalry there is left in the world. You fellows are going to be hard up unless something is done about your repulsive selves in a hurry...
...Kunming, a stone's throw from the terminus of the Burma Road. He bellowed, spark-plugged and steamrollered the Chinese divisions within the C.C.C. from an amorphous lump into a cohesive weapon. He was assisted by such capable officers as Brigadier General George Olmstead, 44, a levelheaded lowan who ran G5; and Brigadier General Paul Caraway, 39, West Point-trained son of Arkansas' Senator Hattie Caraway and an outstanding planner, who served as Deputy Chief of Staff...