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Rotating majestically, the oblate-spheroid world in miniature dominates the lobbies of the Cowles family's Des Moines Register and Tribune, and its Minneapolis Tribune and Star. The identical globes (6 ft. in diameter, 19 ft. in circumference) turn once every three minutes, display the time of day anywhere...
Heritage: Cash & Causes. The Cowles approach to foreign affairs is part of the legacy of Gardner Cowles Sr., onetime school superintendent with a talent for real estate, who founded the family empire in 1903 by paying $300,000 for the faltering Des Moines Register & Leader. After World War I, when...
The empire is firmly based on the fact that the four Cowles dailies are good newspapers. They cover the dogfights as well as the international crises, send reporters to club meetings as well as the Kremlin. The Des Moines papers have 214 stringers; the Minneapolis Star once used three editors...
One Choral Voice. While their words spread out across their world, John, 59, and Mike Cowles, 55, hold two or three half-hour phone calls a week, brief each other on their sessions with distinguished friends. They seldom need to coordinate editorial viewpoints. John may be closer to the famous...
THE DES MOINES TRIBUNE: THE voters have expressed a strong vote of no confidence in the Eisenhower Administration and in the Republican party-the Republican old guard suffered a drastic defeat.