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Family Portrait '(by Lenore Coffee & William Joyce Cowen; produced by Cheryl Crawford) tells, colloquially, of the family of Jesus during the Time when He (who never appears in the play) was preaching away from Nazareth. Theme of the play is Jesus' own saying: "A prophet is not without honor, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house." Only Mary (glowingly played by Judith Anderson) has faith in Jesus: His brothers resent Him as a fanatic who hurts their business, their marriage prospects, and the family name...
Harvard Club of Rhode Island: Stuart H. Cowen, of Coventry, West Warwick...
...with a red railroad station marked LIONELVILLE, a sponge rubber roadbed moulded to look like rock ballast, a thick steel tunnel through which speeds a locomotive, fire box aglow, pulling a string of Lionel Line coaches. Lionel Corp. still makes stem-wind locomotives, but President J. (for Joshua) Lionel Cowen, who gave his middle name to the company, was a pioneer in electrification. Onetime apprentice with Henner & Anderson, early makers of dry batteries, he spent his teens inventing a flashlight, finding new uses in surgical instruments for small electric bulbs. At 20, struck with the idea of electricity...
Theoretically the desire for toy trains is unlimited. President Cowen's biggest problem, which is also the problem of many another toymaker, is the marked seasonal character of his business. The sales curve starts to climb steeply in October, sinks almost out of sight after Christmas. It takes an enormous amount of capital to keep Lionel Corp. going during its nine lean months. Last May, hampered by lack of capital, with some $296,000 owing to creditors, Lionel Corp. slipped into receivership...
...President Cowen's inventiveness had not deserted him. In addition he was blessed with a pair of shrewd receivers named Worcester Bouck and Mandel Frankel. The receivers negotiated a bank loan. Then the company approached Walt Disney Productions of Hollywood, secured permission to make a Mickey Mouse handcar to scoot around Lionel tracks. During the winter 235,000 were sold at $1 apiece. President Cowen, nearly always one jump ahead of U. S. railroad men, streamlined his trains. At last year's Century of Progress in Chicago he exhibited a toy replica of the Union Pacific...