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Light-Fingered. In Des Moines, Ann Baity admitted to awestruck police that she had shoplifted a radio-phonograph and a wardrobe trunk.
About actors, authors, painters there is almost nothing a critic cannot safely say -as long as he sticks to a criticism of their public performance.* Sample, from the Des Moines Leader, describing the Cherry Sisters at the turn of the century: "Erne is an old jade of 50 summers; Jessie...
¶ In Des Moines, Iowa, a 21-year-old mail-carrier named William C. Woodward testified that his wife did not want a baby, was granted a divorce decree which gave him custody of their unborn child.
In Iowa, in the congenial Republican atmosphere of the Iowa Bankers' Association convention at Des Moines, Bob Taft* and Harold Stassen were as chummy as classmates at a college reunion. They had breakfast together. They appeared together for lunch at a Republican rally and were greeted by an orchestral...
Congressmen were not the only ones who felt the need for travel and information. In Des Moines last week, 17 Iowa farmers rounded up by the American Farm Bureau Federation plunked down $1,500 apiece for a four weeks' flying trip to Great Britain and the continent. Said 58...