Word: minne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crashing Success. In Albert Lea, Minn., a rescue squad revived Ralph Booen, after he tried out his new device for asphyxiating rats...
...word got out at Northfield, Minn, one day last May: the most popular professor on the campus, Laurence McKinley Gould, would be Carleton's new president. The boys broke out red ties, and coeds donned red skirts, for Larry Gould Day. Husky, handsome Larry Gould is famed in little, rich Carleton College for his flaming collection of 150 red ties...
...average newborn baby in a hospital nursery cries for about two hours a day-and always with good reason. The Rochester (Minn.) researchers who found this out commented, in the Proceedings of the Staff Meetings of the Mayo Clinic: "One would question the nursing care of adults in a hospital where the average adult patient had to ring the service bell for two hours every...
...readers unmovedd. Main Street moved them. When it appeared (1920), U.S. readers swooped upon it with a cry of shocked delight, and made it their own. Gopher Prairie, first savagely repudiated and then eagerly claimed as the pen name for Lewis' birthplace, Sauk Centre, Minn., was a cartoon of all U.S. small towns slashed on in strokes broad enough to be unmistakable to the most reluctant. Its inhabitiants, at once fearsome and folksy, were at best expertly stage-managed simulacre of U.S. small-town types, at worst human caricatures of something ineluctably real. Its heroine, Carol Kennicott, the Madame...
...Scourge of Sauk Centre. Sinclair Lewis was born (1885) in Sauk Centre (Minn.). His father was a country doctor. So was his grandfather. So is his older brother Claude, who still practices in Sauk Centre. (His eldest brother Fred is a Sauk Centre miller...