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Nuts. In Des Moines, prankish burglars robbed the Hawkeye Nut Co. of $125, mailed the proprietor a cartoon which showed squirrels carrying nuts out of a basement window while a watching policeman telephoned: "Sarge, I've just solved that nut shop robbery."
JOURNALISM: CBS's Paul White, for building a "preeminent" reportorial team; Des Moines' KRNT, for recording "the only on-the-scene broadcast of the atomic bomb on trial."
Another publisher, more of a merchant than a crusader, died last week at 85. Gardner Cowles of Des Moines, a small town Iowa banker who turned to publishing at 42, made a fetish of circulation, made his fair, unexciting Register and Tribune an Iowa habit. Sons Gardner Jr. ("Mike") and...
P.U.ddinhead, Painter. In Fort Des Moines, Iowa, Father Urbanski spelled- but did not think to pronounce-the words for the painter, got this sign: C. A. Tholic, Chaplain.
Bolte also revealed that plans are being drawn up to make the AVC an international organization. Invitations have been sent to veterans organizations of other United Nations, asking them to send representatives to the AVC constitutional convention slated to be held in Des Moines, Iowa, in June of this year...