Word: midwesternisms
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...January, after 18 years as U. of M. president, to run for governor on the Democratic ticket, Curly Byrd's football team (in five years, 43 victories, six defeats) was the nation's best. The university had been transformed from a small agricultural school into a sprawling, Midwestern-style campus with 25,000 students, a host of professional schools and thriving branches (for the armed forces) on four continents...
...prairie, meanwhile, came poets, novelists and painters (among them: Iowa-born Grant Wood). The university began a representative collection of modern American canvases, and its auditoriums began to echo with new music. Largely through the influence of Psychologist Carl Seashore, S.U.I, took on the arts wholesale, and with typical Midwestern hospitality proceeded to make them right at home. It was one of the first universities to hit upon the idea that a novel, poem or painting could be as worthy of an advanced degree as even the most scholarly thesis...
Like inveterate gamblers, St. Louis ball fans keep coming back to Busch Stadium even though they are losing. The Cardinals are the only team in town, and the muggy Midwestern summer is never so dismal that it cannot be brightened by the sight of Stan Musial at the plate or the pleasure of second-guessing hard-luck Manager Eddie Stanky. For a few weeks this spring, the bleacher jockeys even got a kick out of razzing Rookie Wally Moon in the outfield. "Where's Enos?" they would yell. Did that lanky, crew-cut college boy really think he could...
...said Johnson, vice chairman of Automatic Canteen Co. of America. His proposal: shift the franchise to Kansas City, Mo., where Johnson happens to own the only big baseball stadium in town. He is willing to pay $4,500,000 for the privilege of giving the A's that Midwestern cure...
Died. Hugh Alfred Butler. 76, longtime (since 1941) Old Guard Republican Senator from Nebraska; of a stroke; in Washington. A tireless spokesman for Midwestern farm-bloc isolationism, wealthy (grain-trading) Hugh Butler, in 14 years in the Senate, came out against lend-lease, wartime extension of the draft act, reciprocal trade, Social Security, all Government subsidies, the Marshall Plan, Point Four and Korean intervention, last year reversed his field and became an ardent champion of Hawaiian statehood...