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George Allison Wilson, 58, Iowa, who moved up from the Governorship by beating Senator Clyde L. Herring (who had the personal blessing of lowan Henry Wallace). A rugged six-footer who likes to fish and to work in his garden, Wilson is an honest but unspectacular politico whose hat has been in one ring or another almost ever since he got out of law school...
...public Grant Wood was a homely, honest lowan whose art, unlike most of his contemporaries', spoke directly to the man in the street. His meticulous paintings of plain U.S. landscapes and plain U.S. people were hung in the smart art salons of 57th Street; they also appeared in ads and on magazine covers (TIME, Sept. 23, 1940). After Whistler's Portrait of the Artist's Mother, Wood's austere portrait of the typical Iowa farm couple, American Gothic, had become the most popular of all U.S. paintings...
Barnard College (for women) this fall launched a new course called "Religion and Life." At Ohio State, students took a poll on chapel, voted to have religious services. At University of Iowa the Daily lowan this year startled the faculty with an editorial appeal to "Take Us Back to Solid Ground" (i.e., a spiritual faith...
University of Iowa. Said the lowan in September 1940: "Let us not . . . permit ourselves to be led . . . into the belief that war is inevitable for the United States. It isn't inevitable. . . . We must at any cost avoid war." In September 1941: "We agree with Mr. Roosevelt; this is the defense of the Americas. . . . And if it draws us into war upon the seas, then war it shall...
...game, was up to his old tricks. Intercepting a forward pass, he scooted 40 yards to the Packers' 17-yard line, plunged over for a touchdown three plays later. A successful drop kick for the extra point was made by Halfback Nile Kinnick, the passing, punting, blocking, running lowan who led his teammates to four victories in the dog-eat-dog Big Ten last year, and was subsequently voted the No. 1 footballer...