Word: ottumwa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enrolled as a freshman at Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tenn., was Ann Rutledge, 18, daughter of Donald Rutledge of Ottumwa, Iowa, a nephew of the Ann Rutledge who was Abraham Lincoln's tragic, youthful love. She was working in a WPA theatre project in Chicago when she was introduced to the president of Lincoln Memorial, was persuaded to enter...
Died. Colonel Jacob Schick, 59, inventor of the Schick Dry Shaver; of a kidney ailment; in Manhattan. It was his theory that by losing awareness of time he could live to be 120. Born in Ottumwa, Iowa, he went to work in a copper mine in his early childhood, became an Alaska prospector at 20; enlisted in the U.S. Army for the War with Spain; in the World War supervised transport of troops through England. An inveterate inventor of boats, machines, engineering methods, he speeded up gas mask production by a device enabling one girl to fill 20 masks...
Mail trucks clatter by carrying pouches for New Orleans, Butte, Little Rock, Winnetka, Miami, Ottumwa, and Dallas. Letters from angry fathers, distraught mothers, improvident sons, enamored daughters; letters from salesmen in shiny blue serge suits, executives in State Street, swathy Armenians, and pious Baptist priests...
Kenneth L. Colton of Des Moines, Russell W. Harpner, Jr. of Ottumwa, George R. Poshr of Harnburg...
Since the arrival of talkies, most of Hollywood's new female celebrities have been imported either from the Manhattan stage or from European cinema. Not so Karen Morley. Christened Mabel Linton in Ottumwa, Iowa, she went to Los Angeles when she was 13, attended Holly wood High School. After her sophomore year at the University of California at Los Angeles she joined the Pasadena Com munity Playhouse. When Director Clarence Brown was casting male actors for Inspiration, he asked Karen Morley, hired as an extra, to read Greta Garbo's lines. She did it well enough to get a screen...