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...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...
...long, long line. To an Abilene man who had been in the homecoming parade Ike said: "Say, you did a swell job!" To a young man introduced as a veteran, Ike gave the big grip and shouted above the din: "You look like a damn soldier." To an lowan delegate who wanted to know if he was a me-too candidate, Ike was blunt: "If they say I'm me-tooing just because I want to keep the good things that have been done in the last 20 years while I'm throwing out the bad things...
...united them is a wiry, bantam-sized lowan, who first began working as a refinery laborer in 1925. As president of the C.I.O. Oil Workers International Union, Orie Albert ("Jack") Knight, 49, began pleading for unity last fall, soon smoothed over the jealousies and jurisdictional rivalries that had kept the oil unions apart. He is still moving slowly; much of the industry remains to be organized. But as he presided over the deadlock at his Denver headquarters last week, Jack Knight plainly looked like a man hopefully trying on the crown and testing the strength of a new labor kingdom...
...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...