Word: cowans
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Died. Louis G. Cowan, 66, former president of CBS-TV and oft-called "father of the quiz show"; and his wife Pauline Cowan, 63; following a flash fire in their apartment; in Manhattan. Cowan created radio's Quiz Kids in 1940 and television's phenomenally popular $64,000 Question in 1955. He resigned from CBS in 1959 and, among other things, went on to found Chilmark Press, book publishers, and become a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism...
...land speculator who became a Methodist minister before being wiped out in the '20s by a series of misfortunes-including the long and financially draining illness of his first wife. Before she died in 1923, she mentioned that a good new wife for her husband would be Claribel Cowan-a strong woman with blue eyes and broad shoulders who had studied music at Northwestern University...
...participate. The numbers of women delegates are expected to be down slightly-from 38% in 1972 to around 34% now. In 1972, 15% of the delegates were black; this year the figure will be about 11%. "Many blacks find this year's results totally unacceptable," complains Frank Cowan, the party's director of minority affairs. Despite such dissatisfaction, the note of shrillness and deep grievance has left the party...
James and Suzanne Cowan Highland Park, Mich...
...relaxed the rules for evacuating the Vietnamese dependents of American citizens. One American affected by the ruling was Karl Camp, who had already spent $1,500 in bribes in an effort to get his Vietnamese wife and her six children out of the country. Another was former Serviceman Kenneth Cowan, who had left his wife and three children in Saigon when his tour of duty in Viet Nam ended two years ago. Now a helicopter repairman in Redondo Beach, Calif, Cowan took a month's leave from his job, sold his car, diving equipment and drums and flew back...