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Last week "Libby" Libonati, 56, criminal lawyer ("never got a death penalty, thank God!") and longtime state senator, ran unopposed in the Seventh District's Democratic primary, and so became the party's official nominee for the seat left vacant by the death of Octogenarian James B. Bowler. Barring a miracle, Libonati will win the special election on Dec. 31, and take his place in Congress as a maker of the nation's laws...
Daydream à Deux. Box F-1794 turned out to be the Sketch, which promptly cooked up the Win-A-Man stunt, put Powell on the payroll as its "Bowler-Hat Superman." Thousands of letters poured in to the paper, from spinsters, jokers (one chap needed a chap to trim his corns), enlisted men who wanted an officer to serve them breakfast...
...bumblingly chivalrous misfits strove ineffectually to solve hopeless problems (e.g., while struggling to get a grand piano over a narrow suspension bridge across a horrifying chasm between two Alpine peaks, they would encounter, midway, a gorilla). Hardy was the master of mime and the bowler-bouncing doubletake, and, faced with Laurel's witless works, the withering glare. But it was brink-of-tears Laurel (who has also suffered a stroke) who somehow, always looking miserable, saved them...
Died. James B. ("The Silver Fox") Bowler, 82, oldtime Chicago West Side ward boss, alderman (except for two brief intervals) from 1906 to 1953, and U.S. Congressman from 1953; in Chicago. Elder statesman of the city's Democratic machine, Bowler shared power all through the boodle days with "Hinky Dink" Kenna and his close friend "Bathhouse John" Coughlin, whose insurance business Bowler took over when Coughlin died (1938), once maintained his own rifle-equipped "army" to hold out against gangster attempts to invade and take over his ward...
Constancy. In London, a judge termed Grace Bowler, 71, a "most ungrateful" wife to husband John, 70 (they were married in 1910), and granted him a divorce after hearing testimony that she had carried a hot meal half a mile faithfully every evening for 30 years to her boy friend...