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There is nothing saccharine about Jane Wilson. Daughter of a farmer-civil engineer, she was raised in the cornfields of Iowa amongst sturdy Midwestern virtues as high as her eye. She went to a two-room schoolhouse with one room closed for lack of students. In high school and college bands she played the oboe and the bagpipe. From the State University of Iowa, she got a B.A. in art, an M.A. in oil painting, and a Phi Beta Kappa key. There, too, she married Composer John Gruen, now an art and music critic for the New York Herald Tribune...
...since 1925, the convention roared approval of a paragraph supporting academic freedom in Baptist schools, approved another phrase speaking of the church as embracing "all of the redeemed of all ages," which conservatives considered too ecumenical in nature. They shunned a resolution to censure the Kansas City's Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, where Elliott had taught. The consensus was that the split was painful, and perhaps profoundly damaging. Said the Rev. Jess Moody of West Palm Beach. Fla., a popular orator of TV fame: "The biggest issue is not all this ecclesiastical falderal. History may record that America died...
...bleachers, others sloping more conventionally, none more than 52 ft. from the playing stage. The seats come in twelve shades of color. Above hover the scattered grey clouds of the acoustical panels, some of which house the spots that stab the stage with light. Minneapolis' Tyrone Guthrie Theater, Midwestern home of a repertory company exclusively committed to the dramatic classics, is a token of light: the light of ever quickening U.S. cultural interest, and the light of a theater seeking its better self far from Broadway's glaringly commercial White Way. Two questing Manhattan producers, Oliver...
...political suicide for Rocky to remarry. "No one is pleased about the impending marriage," he said. "It's got everyone shook up." Mrs. Mary Jackson, Republican National Committeewoman for Rhode Island, a heavily Catholic state, said: "Remarriage would put him in a very bad position here." A Midwestern Republican Governor saw a historical parallel of sorts: "Everybody thought there was only one Prince of Wales who would give up a kingdom for the woman he loved. But maybe we've got another right here...
...earth would want to pirate an empty boxcar? To hear the Interstate Commerce Commission tell it, many U.S. railroads would-and do. The ICC, at the urging of Midwestern roads, is knuckle-rapping some lines for holding onto boxcars from other lines for their own use. It has filed twelve suits against railroads and has five more upcoming, has already fined the Denver & Rio Grande for 14 violations. "Everybody's crying for boxcars," says Homer Wilson, superintendent of transportation for the Illinois Central...