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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violence. They're lost in all the ridiculous and copious detail. Geoffrey Cowan promises to take us behind the scenes to the "backstage battle over sex and violence in television." Cowan has seen too many Barnaby Jones episodes for his own good. He's in the habit of telling you what happened first and then spending (read: wasting) 30 or 40 pages telling you why. By the time you get through the intricate details of whose wife was accompanying who on what vacation that got interrupted by what's his name's telephone call you're too bored to care...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Gossip In Gory Detail | 5/10/1979 | See Source »

...violence. And nepotism. Cowan's father was president of CBS--forced to resign in the midst of the Quiz Show scandals in the fall of 1959. "When home from Choate on vacation," Cowan tells us, "I would wear one of Dad's ties, with a design composed of dozens of CBS eyes...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Gossip In Gory Detail | 5/10/1979 | See Source »

Though a bullet killed Fred Cowan, it was his extreme prejudice that really did him in. One wonders how those on Cowan's subhuman level can survive without killing somebody. Cowan could not. Maybe all bigots should realize this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: The Ultimate | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

Your remarks about this organization in connection with the Fred Cowan episode in New Rochelle were highly misleading. To suggest that there is any connection between that type of individual and this party represents the most despicable sort of journalistic demagoguery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: The Ultimate | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

...Fred Cowan, 33, an American Nazi cultist, killed five men in a New Rochelle, N.Y., moving company after he was suspended from his job (TIME, Feb. 28). Result: Cowan committed suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: America's Menacing Misfits | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

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