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Sonny began life as Bowen Tufts III, in Boston's Back Bay. The family missed the Mayflower ("Reservations too crowded," explains Sonny), but has been in the country since 1638. A great-great-uncle founded Tufts College. When Sonny saw his first play, he piped his desire to be an actor. "It's all right to be an actor," said his broadminded banker father, "if you're a good...
...Longest gloved fight on record: no rounds (7 hr., 19 min.) between Andy Bowen and Jack Burke at New Orleans, La., April 6, 1893. When both men were unable to continue, the referee ruled it no contest...
Pictures were used in the 1700s for the same reason that they are used today: to catch the eye of the reader and lure him into reading the ad. At first their use was infrequent, because they were too expensive. But in the early 1800s one Abel Bowen, engraver, produced a batch of stock woodcuts, laid them out for cheap sale to magazines, newspapers...
...Abel Bowen's best, laid out in aid of a Philadelphia hair "manufactory" (wigs, transformations, etc.), was a woodcut of a forbidding female whose obviously enormous bust was well upholstered in yards of frills, and on whose head hair was heaped in a grotesque, kinky pile...
...ship was something of a gamble, because it meant a drastic redesigning of traditional ship's machinery. Nonetheless, two enterprising Navy engineers, Rear Admiral Samuel Murray Robinson (then engineering chief, now head of the Navy's Office of Procurement and Material) and Rear Admiral Harold Gardiner Bowen, braved a fierce controversy and pushed it through. Ship Architects Gibbs & Cox (TIME, Sept. 28) were commissioned to design the new machinery...