Two 17-Year-Olds Write Musical About Cherry Sisters
Dave Kirkpatrick and Bill Lenway at Kennedy High School researched the Cherry Sisters vaudeville act for months. They scanned tombstones at Linwood cemetery and studied old newspaper obituaries to craft Cherrysh!, a musical directing and writing themselves for April 27 and 29 performances.
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Dave Kirkpatrick
Bill Lenway
Linwood
Dave
Bill
Cherry Sisters
Bill and
Kennedy High School
Kennedy
Ralph Clements
Cedar Rapids
Public Library
Coe College Library
The
Gazette
Marion
Kennedy Library
Robert Assink
Professor Higgins
Alvin F. Lenway
Nineteenth Street NW
Kirkwood
Linwood Cemetery
Cherry Sisters stage project details and research efforts
Kennedy drama students Bill Lenway and Dave Kirkpatrick describe their Cherrysh show research. They detail sources at libraries, the Sisters' legal battles, and dramatic liberties to portray them as human beings while preserving historical roots.
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Cherry Sisters
Bill
Dave
Kennedy
Absenteeism reshapes Senate balance in tight vote era
The piece notes rising Republican Southern and conservative Democrat influence as absenteeism weakens Mansfield's liberal moderate coalition. It highlights a 46 42 defeat of a voter registration bill aided by 12 absentees, and cites the defection of Sen James B Allen and other Southern Democrats challenging leadership.
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Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Mansfield
Sen
James B. Allen
Alabama
Allen
John Stennis
Mississippi
Allen J. Ellender
Louisiana
James O. Eastland
Poten
Tte
Movies and Topics At Coe College By Edwin Oberg
Prof Edwin Oberg of the University of Iowa will speak on applied mathematics at 4 p.m. in Hickok hall room 305. He will screen two 16mm films, Yellowstone Backcountry and The Tetons, at 8 p.m. in Hickok hall room 105. Both events are free and open to the public, sponsored by the Coe mathematics department.
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Edwin Oberg
University of Iowa
Coe College
Hickok Hall
Yellowstone
Tetons
Coe Mathematics Department
Otis Introduces First Safer Elevator in 1852
Elisha Otis invents the first elevator with an automatic safety device in 1852. The World Almanac notes skyscraper growth tied to elevators and the Equitable Life building in New York City housing the first elevator powered office tower in 1868.
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Elisha Otis
Equitable Life Assurance Society
New York City
Japanese Bombers Raid Solomon Islands Reported
A report from 30 years ago states Japanese bombers raided the Solomon Islands for the first time, marking a notable early air attack in the theater.
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Solomon Islands
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