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When the salesman couldn't verify his identity, Steiner told him to wait until he could call the Yard police. The salesman fled to the room of Fred Bowen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salesman Invades Freshman Dorm; Police Grab Him | 10/11/1955 | See Source »

With the Christmas card man missing, a police sergeant and Steiner began searching the dorms. When they came to Bowen's room, the sergeant asked, "Is a card salesman here?" Under duress, Bowen said no, but Steiner spotted him in the room, and the sergeant seized him for questioning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salesman Invades Freshman Dorm; Police Grab Him | 10/11/1955 | See Source »

...behind the men behind some new physical blessing. For no tangible reason at all, the men of Caltech have peered into the dawn of time, measured the invisible, eavesdropped on thunder over Jupiter. Their goal is not to produce, only to understand. "Really," says Astronomer Ira S. Bowen, who directs the jointly operated observatories, Caltech's Palomar and the Carnegie Institution's Mount Wilson, "astronomy is the most useless of all sciences. Why are we astronomers? For the dickens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Purists | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...Revolutionary War; and 3) refused immediate approval of another textbook called Our Changing Social Order because of its chapter on racial "differences." Said one board member of the book: "All this section says is that all races have the same anatomy." ¶Appointment of the week: Howard R. Bowen, 46, professor of economics at W111iams College, to succeed Samuel N. Stevens as seventh president of Iowa's Grinnell College. A graduate of the State College of Washington, Bowen has served as economist for both Manhattan's Irving Trust Co. and the U.S. Department of Commerce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

Astronomer Ira S. Bowen of Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories is confident that even small instruments circling above the earth's atmosphere can gather information about the stars that is inaccessible to telescopes on the earth's surface. Pictures taken from a satellite will never get back to earth intact, but Bowen suggests that the plates be developed automatically, scanned by electronic apparatus and sent to earth by radio like wirephotos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Unmanned Satellite | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

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