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...seven years of married life, Betty Bowen had borne her Air Force husband four children (aged 17 months to six years) and had managed to follow him from post to post across the U.S. Last week the family was threatened with separation. Captain Kenneth Bowen had been assigned to duty in Europe, but the strained family budget could not accommodate all the other big & little Bowens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jackpot | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

...this critical moment, Captain Bowen appeared on Break the Bank (Wed. 10 p.m., NBC-TV), answered a string of questions about aviation, finally got to the big one: What was the name of the B50 that last year made the first nonstop flight around the world? For answering Lucky Lady, he won the biggest cash jackpot in TV history-$8,870. As Mrs. Bowen packed last week to follow her husband overseas, Captain Bowen observed: "This seems like God has answered my prayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jackpot | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

Though the magazine's pay is nominal, it has attracted such writers as G. B. Shaw, E. M. Forster, J. B. Priestley, Rebecca West and Elizabeth Bowen. A weekly feature is the barbed verses of Sagittarius (Olga Katzin, 54, a housewife who makes daily trips to the cubbyhole London office where she writes her poems). Recently, Sagittarius winged the government on the newsprint shortage. Said Sagittarius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Puzzles & Politics . | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...must have read: Evelyn Waugh, Truman Capote, Raymond Chandler, Nancy Mitford. No one should be caught reading: Beverly Nichols, Elizabeth Bowen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Smarties | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

John Adams and the American Revolution, by Catherine Drinker Bowen. A brisk retossing of the salad days of the commonsensical second President of the U.S., which turns up a personality much crisper than most historians have allowed him (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Aug. 7, 1950 | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

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