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Each of the fellows is affiliated with a House, and one of them--Clark R. Mollenhoff of the Des Moines Register--took his affiliation so seriously that he went out for the Leverett House football team. Unfortunately Mollenhoff chanced to be a one-time captain of the Drake varsity football...
Few escaped the battering. This week, the Des Moines Register's farm editor reckoned that upwards of 50 million bushels was on the ground in Iowa. In Minnesota an estimated 25% of the crop was leveled.
Open Market. In Des Moines, enterprising Justice of the Peace Earl W. Rinehart, standing firmly on his rights, refused to build a partition between the bar where he dispenses 'justice, and the bar where he dispenses beer.
. . . Hath September. In Des Moines, Policeman Harold Grossnickle learned why the twelve parking tickets he laboriously wrote out last month resulted in some confusion: he had ordered the violators to appear in court on Sept. 31.
Mornings at 7. Young Henry gets up at 6 a.m. every morning. To save time, he shaves with an electric razor at the breakfast table, manages to read the paper at the same time. He is at his Des Moines office by 7, frequently returns to it at night. "No...