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Nile Kinnick correspondence, August-December 1940
1940-10-04: Page 01
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THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA IOWA CITY Office of the Director DEPARTMENT of Athletics DIVISION OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION Friday 10:30 PM 10 - 4 - '40 Dear Family: At long last I have been able to find a little time in which to let you know what I have been doing since I left you early in Sept. and how things have been going with me. Billy Stuart, my roommate from Chariton-an excellent boy, and I have just returned from a cinema downtown. From the way things look this will constitute my only recreation throughout the year. We saw Brigham Young which is an excellent show to my way of thinking, I suggest that you all see it if you have the opportunity. There is very little up town tonite to suggest that there is going to be a football game tomorrow. But next week the night before the game with Wisconsin--Dads Day--will be much different. A spirit of fun and enthusiasm will be in the atmosphere; a huge pep meeting will be held and all will look forward with interest and expectation to find out how Iowa will stack up this year against good competition. Everybody will be wondering who will be the new stars, how Green, Coupee, and Enich will look, etc. --and yours truly will feel now and then the desire to be back in the harness--but immediately a feeling of peace and contentment and satisfaction of a job well done and many fruits enjoyed will displace it and I shall be glad that things are as they are. Tomorrow just before the game starts, at the half, and for about two or three minutes after the game isover I am going to be on the Iowa Broadcasting hookup giving my comments on the game and the team. The broadcast is sponsored by the Dairy Producers of Iowa and I am to get $25 per game which is not so bad but nonetheless I feel a wee bit chagrined that they got me so cheaply. I am sure that if I had played it halfway smart I could have done much better--but so much for that, it will be good experience. Starting Thurs at four oclock last week I began an intensive, interesting and thoroughly enjoyable weekend. I got Tom Louden of Fairfield, a friend of mine and a law student to drive me up to Adel immediately after the last law class. I gave him ten bucks for that--feeling that he was being most kind in agreeing to drive me up--especially after I had failed to get any of the beloved fraternity bros. to do that little trick. On arriving in Adel I caught a quick bite at Macks, ran up to see Grandma and Uncle Charlie for a few minutes, grabbed the coupe which Mitch had tuned up for me and took out for Iowa Falls. I managed to get up there about 10: 30 and looked up Geo. Van Nostrand, Chairman of the Young Republicns for Iowa. He introduced me around to the local politicos with whom we went out to the Boat Club on the edge of town near the Iowa River where every body had a little anti-freeze and gabbed for two or three hours. And whom do you think I ran into for the first time in at least ten years--Cliff Powers- remember him. He is just as big as ever and is running a funeral parlor in Iowa Falls. 1 finally got back to the hotel about 12:30 then found that I was rooming with a couple of young Repubs from Cedar Rapids and with whom I had to gab until about 1:30 and so finally to sleep. Up at 7 for breakfast and then to car to drive to Webster City to catch the train bearing Willkie into la. F. While he was making a rather brief appearance from the back platform for the benefit of a nice crowd I along with many others climbed aboard. Whereupon I ran onto several people I knew from around the state including Harrison Spangler and Mike Cowles. I had a nice visit with the latter and reaffirmed my first impression that he is very much alright. The Cowles family is quite a family from many standpoints. Finally, I went back--once the train had started-- with several others to meet the "Big Bear" himself. I was well impressed though I didn't get much of chance to say anything more than hello and some general comment on this that. He is a very gracious sort of fellow and meets all with the same genuiness and sincerity. Under a terrific strain 1 should say he is doing a marvelous job. He is a huge fellow but just a small boy in stature compare to his brother Ed who is 6'5" and weighs 256. He seems to be a sort of genbodyguard and handy man. All of sudden we found ourselves coming to a stop in Iowa Falls where we tumbled out onto the rear platform and thence to the tracks and into an open car. The meeting was to be up on the park hence the crowd was
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THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA IOWA CITY Office of the Director DEPARTMENT of Athletics DIVISION OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION Friday 10:30 PM 10 - 4 - '40 Dear Family: At long last I have been able to find a little time in which to let you know what I have been doing since I left you early in Sept. and how things have been going with me. Billy Stuart, my roommate from Chariton-an excellent boy, and I have just returned from a cinema downtown. From the way things look this will constitute my only recreation throughout the year. We saw Brigham Young which is an excellent show to my way of thinking, I suggest that you all see it if you have the opportunity. There is very little up town tonite to suggest that there is going to be a football game tomorrow. But next week the night before the game with Wisconsin--Dads Day--will be much different. A spirit of fun and enthusiasm will be in the atmosphere; a huge pep meeting will be held and all will look forward with interest and expectation to find out how Iowa will stack up this year against good competition. Everybody will be wondering who will be the new stars, how Green, Coupee, and Enich will look, etc. --and yours truly will feel now and then the desire to be back in the harness--but immediately a feeling of peace and contentment and satisfaction of a job well done and many fruits enjoyed will displace it and I shall be glad that things are as they are. Tomorrow just before the game starts, at the half, and for about two or three minutes after the game isover I am going to be on the Iowa Broadcasting hookup giving my comments on the game and the team. The broadcast is sponsored by the Dairy Producers of Iowa and I am to get $25 per game which is not so bad but nonetheless I feel a wee bit chagrined that they got me so cheaply. I am sure that if I had played it halfway smart I could have done much better--but so much for that, it will be good experience. Starting Thurs at four oclock last week I began an intensive, interesting and thoroughly enjoyable weekend. I got Tom Louden of Fairfield, a friend of mine and a law student to drive me up to Adel immediately after the last law class. I gave him ten bucks for that--feeling that he was being most kind in agreeing to drive me up--especially after I had failed to get any of the beloved fraternity bros. to do that little trick. On arriving in Adel I caught a quick bite at Macks, ran up to see Grandma and Uncle Charlie for a few minutes, grabbed the coupe which Mitch had tuned up for me and took out for Iowa Falls. I managed to get up there about 10: 30 and looked up Geo. Van Nostrand, Chairman of the Young Republicns for Iowa. He introduced me around to the local politicos with whom we went out to the Boat Club on the edge of town near the Iowa River where every body had a little anti-freeze and gabbed for two or three hours. And whom do you think I ran into for the first time in at least ten years--Cliff Powers- remember him. He is just as big as ever and is running a funeral parlor in Iowa Falls. 1 finally got back to the hotel about 12:30 then found that I was rooming with a couple of young Repubs from Cedar Rapids and with whom I had to gab until about 1:30 and so finally to sleep. Up at 7 for breakfast and then to car to drive to Webster City to catch the train bearing Willkie into la. F. While he was making a rather brief appearance from the back platform for the benefit of a nice crowd I along with many others climbed aboard. Whereupon I ran onto several people I knew from around the state including Harrison Spangler and Mike Cowles. I had a nice visit with the latter and reaffirmed my first impression that he is very much alright. The Cowles family is quite a family from many standpoints. Finally, I went back--once the train had started-- with several others to meet the "Big Bear" himself. I was well impressed though I didn't get much of chance to say anything more than hello and some general comment on this that. He is a very gracious sort of fellow and meets all with the same genuiness and sincerity. Under a terrific strain 1 should say he is doing a marvelous job. He is a huge fellow but just a small boy in stature compare to his brother Ed who is 6'5" and weighs 256. He seems to be a sort of genbodyguard and handy man. All of sudden we found ourselves coming to a stop in Iowa Falls where we tumbled out onto the rear platform and thence to the tracks and into an open car. The meeting was to be up on the park hence the crowd was
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