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Hulking, whisper-voiced Sherman Hoar Bowles, 56, is a big man in Springfield. Mass. As lantern-jawed as his cousin Chester, he is a successful publisher, the head of Atlas Tack Corp., a real-estate operator, a dabbler in airlines-and a man who thrives on trouble. He has been sued by the Treasury for gold-hoarding, pursued by squads of tax collectors, stalked by labor unions. All have found him a baffling adversary, but an affable...
Like three generations of Bowleses (all named Sam) before him, shrewd Sherman runs the venerable Springfield Republican (est. 1824, now the weakest in his four-paper monopoly). Last week the Republican and its sisters, the morning & evening Union and the Daily News, were shut up tight, and Springfield (pop. 150,000) was without a daily for the first time in 102 years. Cause: a squabble over a hiring clause which kept Bowles and the International Typographical Union from signing a contract...
...Sherman, Saul...
...College Inn of Chicago's Hotel Sherman, one of the "cradles of swing," teen-agers danced to Claude Thornhill's sedate, glossy arrangements of Warsaw Concerto, the Nutcracker Suite, and Yours Is My Heart Alone. The Sherman's smart boss Ernie Byfield let the boys play loud after 10 o'clock, but took newspaper ads to say that there would no longer be din with dinner. In Minneapolis, the late Glenn Miller's band, still among the big ten under Tex Beneke's direction, now had twelve strings (Miller's old swing band...
...Arrived, in London: Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher, commander of the U.S. Eighth (Atlantic) Fleet and Vice Admiral Forrest Percival Sherman, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, en route to the Mediterranean for a "normal [and timely] inspection of naval forces in Europe...