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¶ In Des Moines, Iowa, the Welcome Wagon Service-which gives newcomers to the city sample products from local merchants and manufacturers-tried but hastily abandoned a subsidiary service: the delivery of six bottles of beer to newcomers, brides and mothers of newborn babies.
To cover the news (from politics to art) in this great slice of the American Midwest requires not only the expert services of reporters in Minneapolis, Omaha, Kansas City, Des Moines, etc., but also demands plenty of travel from Chicago's five-man staff. Indicative of this kind of...
A decade ago, spectacled, aggressive Gardner ("Mike") Cowles likes to recall, "I, personally, started Look, and devoted a whale of a lot of time to it. I was the works, and I really ran everything." But for most of that decade, the picture magazine he sired was run by others...
William Wesley Waymack, 58-year-old editor and vice president of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, member of the Board of Directors of the Chicago
Divorced. Gardner ("Mike") Cowles Jr., 43, president-publisher of the Des Moines Register & Tribune, founder-publisher of Look; by Lois Thornburg Cowles, 37; after 13 years, two children; in Des Moines.