Word: ottumwa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Edna Ferber, 80, grande dame of the big, romantic American novel, whose 32 books sold millions of copies; after a long illness; in Manhattan. The tiny, supercharged daughter of a Jewish businessman in Ottumwa, Iowa, she decided to "show" the town's anti-Semites by becoming famous. And so she did, never marrying, pouring everything into her writing as she mined the rich lodes of Americana she found all across the country-in Chicago (1924's So Big), the Mississippi River (1926's Show Boat), Oklahoma (1929's Cimarron), upstate New York...
...Politics. During the war, Nixon was a naval officer, and Pat dutifully followed him from billet to domestic billet-Washington, Ottumwa, Iowa, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Baltimore, methodically getting a new job, buying secondhand furniture and setting up house in each post. While he was on duty in the Pacific, she lived in a boardinghouse in San Francisco, worked as an OPA economist. At war's end, Lieut. Commander Nixon and his lady were stationed in Baltimore. Pat was pregnant, and the future was uncertain. Then a now-famous telegram came from Whittier: a "Committee of One Hundred" active Republicans...
Roughhewn, farm-bred Herschel Loveless did not go to college, got a job as a railroad worker in Ottumwa, was the city's street superintendent when his handling of a 1947 flood turned him into a local hero and set him up for election ao mayor in 1949. Consistently underestimated by the dominant G.O.P. , even after he beat Incumbent Governor Leo Hoegh in 1956, he exploited his old-shoe manner to win easy re-election in 1958, began to look like a political Music Man to rebrassed Democrats and out-of-tune Republicans...