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Effective Manager. As was true of another noted Republican before him, Herbert Hoover, history would have treated Dewey more kindly if he had never run for President. The son of an Owosso, Mich., newspaper publisher, Dewey was educated at the University of Michigan and Columbia University. After winning third place in a national contest as a college baritone, he studied voice in New York City, considered an operatic career (Critic Deems Taylor liked Dewey's voice but said he sang without "enough impulse"). Instead Dewey settled on law and swiftly achieved prominence. A skilled trial lawyer who could wither...
Clothing Retailer Robert R. Storrer of Owosso, Mich., speaks respectfully of the "extremely style-conscious teen, a year-round buyer. If he sees any item he likes, he buys it on impulse. A few calls for a style or color today may mean a headlong rush for it tomorrow." If the college crowd picks it up, and the clothiers climb on the bandwagon, the middle-aged man may find it on his back two years later without even knowing...
...present. Correspondent Ball could draw on eleven years of entries in his notebooks since he did his first story on Ulbricht and the East German Communists. That was back in June 1950, covering the famed East Berlin rally of "free German youth" for his home-town paper, the Owosso (Mich.) Argus-Press. In the process, he was arrested and held for several hours by the Volkspolizei...
Malts Alarm. In Owosso, Mich., when a fire started in Dewey Campbell's auto, Dewey got a bottle of beer from a saloon, shook it up, extinguished the flame with foaming brew...
Died. Annie Thomas Dewey, 77, mother of New York's Governor Thomas Dewey (an only child), widow of George Martin Dewey Jr., Owosso postmaster and publisher of the Owosso Times; of a heart attack; in Owosso, Mich...