Word: cowans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...network's president within four years, its ex-chairman three years later. When NBC's President Robert Kintner (TIME, Nov. 16) began his TV career by assuming high office at ABC, his fingers were still sore from five years as a Washington columnist. Louis George Cowan, until last week president of the CBS-TV network, seemed to fit the pattern. Although he was a highly successful independent TV packager, Cowan moved into the upper echelons of CBS-TV four years ago, largely because of the sudden success of a single, Cowan-made show: $64,000 Question...
...sort of Quizzard of Oz, he had also developed Quiz Kids and Stop the Music. Thoughtful, well-read Lou Cowan ran CBS with due regard for public affairs programs (Ed Murrow) and serious drama (Playhouse go), but remained strongly identified in the trade with quiz shows. And the wind that blew him down last week stemmed clearly from the TV scandals. Cowan missed testifying before the Harris subcommittee last month when he developed a thrombophlebitic leg, but told investigators in his hospital room that he left his $64,000 packaging firm seven weeks after the show went...
Stanton shot back a reply: "It shocks me that you should attribute to me motives that have no basis." Reminding Cowan that he had agreed to quit anyway, Stanton said that in the "fast-moving situation" that now faces TV, strong leadership is needed, and "administration is not your forte." Pressed by reporters who asked if the quiz stigma was not the true reason for Cowan's departure, Stanton backed and filled, finally said: "No, sir. I'm not conducting a witch hunt...
...YORK, Dec. 8--Louis G. Cowan resigned today as president of Columbia Broadcasting System's television network. He asserted he was forced out because of an innocent association with the rigged quiz show, "$64,000 Question...
...Cowan, 49, in a letter of resignation to CBS President Frank Stanton, claimed he was banished into a network limbo, forbidden even to communicate with his office...