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...into the night, every night, Red sits up and writes a short story. He has them bound in red morocco leather, with the words "By Red Skelton" lettered on each volume in gold. None has been published or even read by any but his closest friends. The late Gene Fowler ("my only father"), who was to have been Skelton's biographer, once reported that every Skelton story was about a redhead-redheaded boys, redheaded men, even redheaded old ladies. He likes to paint, too, committing to canvas an endless series of clowns...
Died. Gene Fowler. 70, flamboyant Boswell for flamboyant figures; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Fowler's Timberline (1933), a classic for sentimental journalists, told the story of the Denver Post and its rascally bosses, Fred Bonfils and Harry Tammen; The Great Mouthpiece was a lurid biography of a lurid, turn-of-the-century lawyer; and Good Night, Sweet Prince loyally and lovably concentrated as much on John Barrymore's peccadilloes as on his superb acting...
Despite an impressive contingent of crack newsmen-among them Damon Runyon, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Burns Mantle and Gene Fowler-the paper read like a circus flyer. For an editorial page, Tammen and Bonfils substituted invective, raked up so much scandal-a good deal of it true-that they kept a loaded shotgun in their office to discourage reader complaints. As the Post grew in power and prosperity, its proprietors branched into other fields; the Post became the first and last U.S. daily ever to own a circus (Sells-Floto), run a burlesque house and sell coal...
...Charles H. Kellstadt, 63, president of Sears, Roebuck & Co. since 1958, became board chairman and chief executive officer, replacing Fowler B. McConnell, 65, who retired after 44 years with the company. The new president will be Crowdus Baker, 54, former vice president and comptroller. Kellstadt joined Sears in 1932. He was brought into the Chicago headquarters in 1946 as general retail merchandising manager, moved steadily up the ladder to a directorship in 1948 and vice-presidency the next year. In 1950 Kellstadt was appointed supervisor of Sears's southern region. At Sears business was never better. For the company...
Conventional teachers of elementary physics deplore the Lambe-Fowler approach, pointing out that the physics needed in most kinds of engineering is only remotely concerned with relativity or particles. The progressives retort that their students are enlivened by touching the inner realities that make the universe tick...