Word: cowen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lawrence Cowen, president of the Lionel Corp. since 1946, resigned as president and was named board chairman by a group of investors-headed by Lawyer Roy Cohn-which got control of more than 200,000 of Lionel's 720,000 outstanding shares. Ailing Lionel (1958 loss: $469,057), a leading toy-train maker, also produces baseball gloves, fishing gear and electronic devices. Cohn, once chief counsel of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy's Senate investigating subcommittee, said his group will name a new president in the near future and adopt "drastic marketing changes...
Also, Maryland: Peter J. Achinstein of Winthrop and Bethesda; Jeremy R. Azrael of Adams and Baltimore and Wilson W. Cowen of Eliot and Behtesda...
...Hughes operates somewhat more snugly behind them. Nonetheless, he is out of bed, in his northwest Washington apartment, at 5:30 a.m. to read for an hour. At 7 o'clock his wife, Dorothy (they met at a Science church in 1918 in Shanghai, where her father, James Cowen, worked for Millard's Weekly and Hughes was working for the National City Bank branch), announces that she is ready with breakfast: orange juice, one egg, two strips of bacon, hot lemonade. (Hughes's other culinary tastes are mostly simple. He likes steaks, roast beef and pudding...
...Though not the youngest individuals. Lawrence Cowen, now president of Lionel Corp., bought a seat...
...Miss Cowen fled up the hall screaming, then fainted. She remembers next being picked up from the floor where she had fallen after being struck by one of the assailants...