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    publisher, and politician Gardner Cowles Sr., John was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University. In 1922, Cowles launched the Register and...
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    sons John Cowles Sr. and Gardner "Mike" Cowles Jr. co-founded Look magazine and ran the Cowles Media Company (established in 1935). "Gardner Cowles Sr."...
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  • John Cowles may refer to: John Cowles Sr. (1898–1983), American newspaper and magazine publisher John Cowles Jr. (1929–2012), American editor and publisher...
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  • Cowles may refer to: Alfred Cowles Sr. (1832–1889), publisher Chicago, spouse Sarah Hutchinson Alfred Cowles Jr. (1865–1929) publisher, businessman and...
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  • that point, Gardner Cowles Sr. handed control of the family's media business to his sons John Cowles Sr. and Gardner "Mike" Cowles Jr. In 1939, the company...
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  • decade of the century and managed them successfully. Gardner's son, John Cowles Sr., moved to Minneapolis to manage the Star. Under him, it had the city's...
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  • John Cowles Jr. (May 27, 1929 – March 17, 2012) was an American editor and publisher, son of John Cowles Sr. (1898–1983). Cowles sat on the boards of directors...
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  • Cowles family of Spokane are about sixth cousins of the family of Gardner Cowles Sr. of Des Moines, Iowa and Minneapolis, Minnesota who owned Cowles Media...
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  • American naval aviator to shoot down a German seaplane John Cowles Sr. (1917) – co-owner of the Cowles Media Company Frederick Cunningham (1917) – Olympic...
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  • Tumbleweeds. In 1922, The Des Moines Register publisher Gardner Cowles, Sr.' son John Cowles Sr. launched the Register and Tribune Syndicate (the family also...
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  • Elizabeth Morley Cowles Gale Ballantine (May 21, 1925 – October 10, 2009), known as Morley Cowles Ballantine, was an American newspaper publisher, editor...
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    he lost his Tribune news run when the Des Moines newspaper magnate John Cowles Sr. bought the Tribune Company. For a brief time, Hartman became a vacuum...
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    The Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" is a retired long-range, high-altitude, Mach 3+ strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed and manufactured by the American...
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    to the Secretary of the Navy. Cowles was an official representative at the coronation of King George V in 1911. Cowles married Mary Thurman, the oldest...
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    Register & Tribune Syndicate's parent company, brothers John Cowles, Sr. and Gardner Cowles, Jr., bought out the McNaught and Markey interests. Arnold...
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  • 1946) March 16 – John Ghindia, American football player (b. 1925) March 17 – John Cowles Jr., editor, publisher, and son of John Cowles, Sr. (b. 1929) March...
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    first issue of Look magazine, created by publisher Gardner Cowles Jr. and John Cowles Sr. as a rival to Life magazine launched two months earlier by...
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  • Humphrey assured the influential newspaper and magazine publisher, John Cowles Sr., that he was "determined to rid Minneapolis of its Syndicate and Corruption...
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    Gardner "Mike" Cowles Jr. (1903–1985) was an American newspaper and magazine publisher. He was co-owner of the Cowles Media Company, whose assets included...
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  • (1895–1985), John, Sr. (1898–1983), and Gardner, Jr. (1903–1985). John Cowles Sr. and Gardner Cowles Jr. joined with their father to create the Cowles Media...
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  • Moines Register. He would work for the Register for the next 51 years. John Cowles, Sr. persuaded Taylor to start a regular sports column for the Register...
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  • purchased by John Cowles, Sr. After acquiring the Journal, Cowles merged it with the Minneapolis Star, thus creating the Minneapolis Star-Journal. Cowles would...
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  • V-Battalion. The third version of Citizen V is John "JJ" Watkins Jr., the alleged son of John Watkins Sr. and Paulette Brazee (although an affair between...
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  • Register & Tribune Syndicate's parent company, brothers John Cowles, Sr. and Gardner Cowles, Jr.'s Cowles Media Company, bought out the McNaught and Markey...
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    the Minneapolis Tribune, was purchased by Cowles Media Company, which was partially owned by John Cowles, Sr. Glendalough Game Farm hosted important individuals...
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    In 1996, he married Allison Stacey Cowles, widow of William H. Cowles, 3rd (died 1992), who was part of the Cowles family that owns The Spokesman-Review...
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  • years. Born in Chicago, he was the eldest son of Alfred Cowles Sr. and Sarah Frances Cowles (née Hutchinson). His father served as bookkeeper, then secretary-treasurer...
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    Evelyn Byrd. John Jacob Astor Sr. (1763–1848) Magdalena Astor (1788–1832) Charles Astor Bristed Sr. (1820–1874) William Backhouse Astor Sr. (1792–1875)...
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  • "Bamie/Bye" Roosevelt (1855–1931), m. William Sheffield Cowles Sr. William Sheffield Cowles Jr. (1898–1986), Connecticut State Representative, Mayor...
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  • before the Cowles family acquired the Register in 1903, the newspaper was a "voice of pragmatic conservatism". However, Gardner Cowles Sr., who served...
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