Editorials on Parsons fate and heart transplant lore
A January 1968 Washington Evening Journal editorial column discusses Parsons College accreditation hopes, urging prompt re-evaluation by the North Central Association and praising the college’s growth. It then reflects on public interest in heart transplant chatter, citing poets such as Housman Byron Shakespeare Yeats and Moore on hearts and transplant themes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
Parsons College
Iowa highway commission launches junior executive training
Des Moines reports the Iowa highway commission will select three to four engineers for a new junior executive training program at the University of Iowa. They will study public administration economics and liberal arts for one semester and then complete 18 months of in service training to earn a master in engineering management. Participants incur no tuition but must commit to at least two years with the commission or repay part of the cost. A senior program for top management follows next month with three day seminars.
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DES Moines
IDPA
Iowa Highway Commission
Joseph Coupal, Jr
Commission
University of Iowa At
Iowa City
The
Highway Commission
University of Iowa
Coupal
Eartha Kitt tears sparked debate on emotion at White House
Eartha Kitt drew tears at a White House luncheon as she denounced war and taxes, prompting reflections on public emotion. Separately, February seminars, education reimbursements, and in service training plans were announced by a state commission. Also noted: dummy license plates scrutiny, potential state treasurer candidates, and funding shifts in higher education. Ohio Rep Taft to speak at a fundraising dinner in Pella January 27.
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Eartha Kitt
White House
State Executive Council
Paul Franzenburg
L. B. Liddy
Liddy
University of Iowa
Defense
Defense Department
Iowa
Taft
Ohio
Robert Taft
Rep
John Kyle
Central College
Pella
Washington Evening Journal listing and staff credits
The Washington Evening Journal in Washington Iowa lists staff including David Elder editor and business manager William Shannon vice president advertising director Charles Morris news editor Bob Shaffer local advertising Howard Hazen production superintendent. The paper publishes afternoons except Sunday Christmas and July 4th and is entered second class under the 1879 act.
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David Elder
William Shannon
Charles Morris
Bob Shaffer
Howard Hazen
Washington
Iowa
United Press
Inland Daily Press Ass’n
Iowa Daily Press Ass‘n
Iowa Press Ass’n
Audit Bureau of Circulations
False Card Brilliance by Helen Sobel in Vanderbilt Final
In a 1945 Vanderbilt final, Helen Sobel leads ace of clubs then another club, triggering a sequence where declarer Schenken misreads notrump and diamonds. Sobel's brilliant false card creates a doubleton diamond signal and forces a collapse, though the hand could have been made at the other table.
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Vanderbilt
Helen Sobel
Declarer
Schenken
South
Mrs. So
King
Her
Helen
Mrs. Sobel
Italian Girls Prefer To Wear No Girdles By L. M. Boyd
A survey on fashion norms notes Italian women are less inclined to wear girdles than French German or English peers. The column compiles assorted Q-and-A bits and light social observations on manners humor and everyday life from a columnist.
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Brickman
Evening Journal
Parsons
Fairfield
Lloyd Ballhagen
Spencer
E. A. Housman
Lord Byron
Maid of
Athens
Shakespeare
Ferdinand
Miranda
Henry
William Butler Yeats
Thomas Moore
Debbie
Happy
Brad Carter
Carter
Ronald Winter
Harrison Weber
Iowa Daily Press
By Jim Fiebig
Miss Kitt
White House Gates
Worthington
Loren Worthington
Lamont
Conrad Democrat
Dale Awtry
Lake City
Franzenburg
Awtry
State Agriculture Department
Rudy van Drie
Ames
Joseph Flatt
Winterset
Kenneth Benda
Hartwick
Scott County
Kenneth Gaines
Campbell Ed Campbell
Harold Hughes
Campbell
Hughes
U. S. Senate
National Science Foundation
Uni
Washington Evening Journal
Washington, Iowa
By B. Jay Becker
Stayman
West
Sobel
East
Becker
L. M. Boyd
MAN OF Medicine
Africa
U. S
Charles Bohlen
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