Word: marshalltown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marshalltown, Iowa, 800 people gathered for a memorial service honoring Marine Lance Corporal Darwin Judge. He was one of the last four Americans killed during the final evacuation of Viet Nam. His parents had the added pain of knowing that in the confusion, Darwin's body had been left behind in Saigon. But Postman Henry Judge displayed no rancor. Said he: "We've always stood up for the Lord, our country and the flag." Added Ida Judge: "You know, if it's your turn to die -and only the Lord knows that-what more beautiful...
...addition to the fine performances, one of St. Paul Opera's biggest contributions to regional opera is the launching of a program to share production costs (sets and costumes) with four other companies-the Seattle, San Diego, Houston and Washington, D.C. Each season, the Gramma Fisher Foundation * in Marshalltown, Iowa, contributes $100,000 for a new operatic production that is mounted by one of the companies, then made available in succeeding years to the others. St. Paul, for example, currently has a very stylish Manon that was introduced earlier this year in Houston. The plan is a sensible, sane...
...essay, Miller was disarmingly explicit about the petty social humiliations and painful hypocrisies of the closeted homosexual, starting from his childhood in Marshalltown, Iowa, where his mother, who wanted a girl, kept him in pink as a baby, sent him to school in his steel-rimmed glasses carrying a music roll, thus exposing him to kids who took one look and called him "sissy." His first sexual encounter (at the age of twelve) was with a boy who dropped off a freight train one night. Miller recalled how in later life his best friend telephoned to say that his eldest...