Word: minne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gopher Prairie, Minn., Sinclair Lewis' culture-starved heroine, Carol Kennicott, yearned to argue art with her energetic, flat-chested friend Vida Sherwin. For 15 minutes they debated: It's art, but is it pretty? Then Carol cried: "I don't care how much we disagree. It's a relief to have somebody talk something besides crops. Let's make Gopher Prairie rock to its foundations: let's have afternoon tea instead of afternoon coffee...
William M. Shapiro '58 of Winthrop House and South Minneapolis, Minn., and Richard W. Iverson '57 of Lowell House and Minneapolis suffered serious injuries when a car driven by Frederick S. Hird, 3rd, '57 crashed into the on-coming autobile of Alphius O. Fulton of Arlington. Mrs. Fulton was pronounced dead on arrival at the Lowell Hospital. Her son, John, 11, was treated for superficial cuts and was released along with his uninjured father...
...idea for the Stevenson script originated in the bouncy political organization of Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey, whence came the suggestion that Stevenson, as a peg for taking off on the Eisenhower Administration, might recall the 1952 campaign day when both Adlai and Ike traveled to Kasson, Minn., to set forth their farm policies...
...Clinic abdominal surgeon, who operated on James Roosevelt in 1938, professor of surgery at the University of Minnesota, one of Princeton University's athletic greats as end on the undefeated football "team of destiny" in 1922; by drowning as he swam to retrieve a dinghy; in Lake Pepin, Minn...
...picture caption read: PRIESTS IN SHORTS. The photograph showed two Episcopal clergymen in Northfield, Minn. last week for the national convention of Episcopal Young Churchmen-standing about coolly in Bermuda shorts. The picture pulled a flurry of mail from: 1) Episcopalians who objected to men of the cloth baring their knees; 2) more Roman Catholics who resented the application of the title "priests" to Protestants...