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Died. Myron Melvin Cowen, 67, U.S. Ambassador to Australia (1948-49), the Philippines (1949-51) and Belgium (1952-53), whose greatest contribution came while adviser to Philippine President Elpidio Quirino, when he was instrumental in planning the suppression of the Communist-led Huk rebellion and starting the near-bankrupt islands on the road to solvency, offering up to $250 million in U.S. aid, conditional upon basic reforms; of a hemorrhage following brain surgery; in Washington...
Died. Joshua Lionel Cowen, 85, inventor of the Lionel electric train, a boyhood tinkerer who got off on the right track by patenting the first flashlight at 19, a year later developed a crude battery-powered wooden train set that proved an instant hit with children's fathers, served as president (1901-45) and later board chairman (1945-57) of the U.S.'s biggest toy train company (sales in 1957: $18,776,862); of a stroke; in Palm Beach...
Third-liners Pete Waldinger and Bobby Cowen netted the Crimson's first two goals. Waldinger drove home a long screened shot in the first period off a pass from Bob Clark. During a second-period Polar Bear penaity, Cowen netted a short backhand from a scramble in front of the Bowdoin...
British Commonwealth law, which prohibits publication of relevant information between the time of arrest and sentencing was discussed by Zeiman Cowen, Dean of the Faculty of Laws at Melbourne University in Australia...
Neither Wiggins nor Cowen could specify, however, when the contract would be signed. They estimated that the signing could conceivably occur at the end of the week, but said that middle or late May was a more realistic date...