Word: lowans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...producer this season, 53-year-old Kermit (Look Homeward, Angel] Bloomgarden (TIME, April 21), had the good fortune to form a team of three men with widely varied experience in show business: Composer (You and I, Two in Love] and oldtime Radio Performer Meredith Willson, 56, the jovial lowan who in his first try for the theater wrote book, music and lyrics; Director (No Time for Sergeants, Auntie Mame) Morton Da Costa, 44, who gave the show its sparkle and pace; and the Music Man himself, longtime Cinemactor Robert Preston, 40, known vaguely to millions of moviegoers for years...
...scholarship for a girl who does not smoke, Yale has $1,000 for a boy named DeForest, Princeton has a scholarship for an Eagle Scout and Harvard has funds for boys with the name Anderson, Baxendale, Borden, Bright, Downer, Haven, Murphy or Pennoyer-and also for an lowan, preferably living somewhere along the Burlington. Among the lowan takers: Nathan Pusey of Council Bluffs...
...Into Everything." Hoegh's administration produced results that nearly every lowan can see and feel as he drives the highways and country roads, picks up his youngsters at the newly consolidated schools, or profits from the paychecks of new industry. But nonetheless many an lowan is irked because he sees and hears too much of the governor who, as one Statehouse staffer put it, has been "into everything...
Chapter & Verse. Once a week, over WNBQ in Chicago, tall, hollow-cheeked Ken Nordine recites poetry to a late evening audience. Perched on a stool, with a stepladder full of books beside him, the 34-year-old lowan reads earnestly in a subdued, husky voice, glancing from page to camera like a casual host reading to guests in his library. What distinguishes Nordine's shows from others like it is the flashing telephone by his side. He has adapted the disk jockey's request-format for poetry and made it work. When he finishes a poem, he picks...
...honor, Adlai Stevenson. Kelly resigned in a huff. That was a good opening for Iowa's State Chairman Jake More. Knowing exactly who the good guys and the bad guys are in the minds of many Iowa voters, More roared that "city slickers" had tried to keep lowan Gillette off the program...