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Another publisher, more of a merchant than a crusader, died last week at 85. Gardner Cowles of Des Moines, a small town Iowa banker who turned to publishing at 42, made a fetish of circulation, made his fair, unexciting Register and Tribune an Iowa habit. Sons Gardner Jr. ("Mike") and John, more journalistically adventurous than their father, have spread the Cowles empire into the Minneapolis field, into five radio stations, a feature syndicate, Look magazine...
...Congress to chart a shipping policy, could finally weigh anchor. Congress passed the Bland Bill, which provides for 1) the disposal of surplus war-built ships; and 2) refunds to ship operators to reimburse them for the high cost of ships purchased during the war. From the vast U.S. merchant fleet of 40,080,000 tons, 61% of all the ships in the world, the U.S. Maritime Commission will put on the block 2,000 or more slow Liberty ships, about 400 faster Victory ships and C-type cargo liners, and about 550 speedy tankers. Selling very many of these...
...right on building better ships, 50 a year. (In 16 years after 1920, the U.S. built only two dry-cargo ships.) Thirty are already abuilding or contracted for, at a cost of $93 million. At the end of this month, the Commission will open bids for the fastest merchant vessels ever built in the U.S.: two 670-ft., 28-knot, 543-passenger liners. It is also busy reconverting the P-2s, originally built as Navy troop carriers, for private shippers. Their cabins, in which the beds neatly fold into the bulkhead (see cut), will carry tourists more comfortably-and probably...
Married. Henry Benjamin ("Hank") Greenberg, 35, sad-faced, Charley Horsy left fielder of baseball's champion Detroit Tigers; and Caral Gimbel Lasker, 30, horsy daughter of Manhattan Merchant Prince Bernard Feustman Gimbel (Gimbel Bros., Saks Fifth Avenue); he for the first time, she for the second; at Brunswick...
...plain carpenter of Grünerlökken, an Oslo workers' suburb. He became a union lawyer, for over 20 years held his own in the rough & tumble of Norway's Labor politics. When the Germans invaded Norway, Lie, as Minister of Supply and Shipping, ordered the merchant marine into Allied ports, then fled with the Norwegian Government on a British battleship. Later his buxom wife Hjördis and his three daughters joined him in London, where he embarked on a new career-diplomacy...