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MM3 The front row DES MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER FEB. 17 FEATURES 4. Luther Utterback Joan Bunke Photos by Bob Nandell 8. A dog named Sundown. Dix Hollobaugh Photos by Bob Nandell 12.

Joe Tyler, bobsledder David Rhein Photos by Flint Born and Bob Nandell DEPARTMENTS 2. The Front Row. Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart STAFF EDITORCharles Jacks! NtHles ART DIRFXTORRoiald S. Liu STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERlm PtttrMi LAYOUT ARTISTRaicy Ihkifelfl By ELIZABETH CLARKSON ZWART 'A Picture magazine welcomes contributions from its readers, but The Register will assume no responsibility for such contributions. If return of material is desired, a stamped, self-addressed envelope must be enclosed.

Mailing address is 715 Locust Des Moines, la. 50304. about 7V4 pounds of blood in there. Squishy, aren't you? WATCH IT while you're in Sweden! The Swedes are apt to band you a pitcherful of buttermilk and suggest that you pour it over your cornflakes. CODE: "Red blanket!" That's the word passed to the staff in hospital emergency when the ambulance arrives with someone who is in very bad shape.

Ambulance attendants actually wrap such a seriously ill or injured person in a red blanket. YESTERDAY was a sluggish little dribble across the kitchen floor bad news for the youngest member of the family, who had forgotten his household chore. His job was to empty the overflow pan under the icebox. CRITIQUE: "Most show biz autobiographies are written in a style that is the literary equivalent of Wonder Bread," Julius Novick said in the New York Times. ANOTHER LANGUAGE: The Reader's Digest prints a novel in a condensed version, but in England, that's a potted story.

Want to move? IF YOU ARE WORRYING lest the lunar scientists are running short of samples, let us remind you that more than 800 pounds of moon rocks have been brought back by the astronauts almost half a ton of the moon is now on earth. FAMILY LIFE: "Is this the Johnson residence?" a local woman asked the boy who had answered the phone. "Just a minute I'll have to ask my dad," the boy said. And he dropped the receiver to go on the research project. YOU AREN'T the only one who's afraid to walk around your hometown after dark.

Seventy Steps Shut; Gullet Passage; Grope Lane; and the Shambles those are names given to streets by the people in Shrewsbury, England. SHEDDING his baby teeth right and left, 5-year-old Chris De Saulniers of Marshalltown began to wonder about the entire procedure. "Do I get only two helpings of teeth?" Chris finally asked. Register and Tribune (Copyright 1979, Des Moines Company. Ml rights reserved.) Cow pMo by BOB NANDELL Dame May Whitty knew her lines.

THIS IS THE AGE of rudeness -and not only in the United States. The English endure it, too; but they handle it better than we do. After World War II when bad manners were throttling what had seemed like a courteous world, Dame May Whitty, revered British actress who was then over 80, suffered the rude inattentions of a surly London salesgirl. "I suppose you know who I am," the senior ornament of the English stage finally said. "Yes," said the sullen girl.

"And I suppose you think you're as good as I am," said Dame May. "I certainly do!" said the girl. "Then why can't you be civil to your equals?" asked Dame May Whitty. THERE ARE a few things in life that you never forget like the patent leather mouth with which you leave the dentist's office after having had your teeth cleaned. THE THINNEST SLICE of the year and some people who have survived it say it is the meanest slice that's the months got itself into a shape it has assumed only 13 times in 375 years.

In 1976, a leap year, short February included five Sundays for the 13th time since 1604. And when will that happen again? Heaven knows I don't! THE FAIR MAID of February -that was an earlier gardener's name for the snowdrop. And in those prettier days, the daffodil was the Lent Lily. WHEN Mary Wardlow was a seventh grader in West Des Moines, she was so often late for a library period that she drew a reprimand from Twyla Kerr, the librarian. "Mary!" said Mrs.

Kerr when once more the truant straggled in. "I never want to see you walk in here late again!" A month or two after that, Mary was late again. So she crawled in. PORTRAIT: Your blood makes up about a twentieth of the total weight of your body. So if you weigh 150 pounds, you have On today's cover is a sculptor named Luther Utterback.

He's not your ordinary sculptor. He doesn't chisel and chip at stones. He wrestles them. Sometimes with the use of a crane. Which is what he did when he erected 'Five Stones, One Tree" in front of Des Moines' new Hoover Building.

Utterback doesn't like to talk much, especially when someone starts asking him about his work. MiiO Passersby who asked him dumb questions February' Fair Maid. about "Stones," usually got tongue-in-cheek answers. Only one thing is certain about the tons of stones in front of the Hoover Building: Utterback had tons of fun putting February. (Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart's column appears Monday through Friday in The Des Moines Tribune.) them there.

For a look at Utterback and his new sculpture, read Joan Bunke's open letter But three years ago, this littlest of to him on page 4..