Word: bowmans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first. William Bowman, a Jewish furniture dealer, and his wife dismissed the episodes as pranks. When swastikas were smeared in lipstick on their two-story house in San Francisco's Sunset district, they quietly wiped the marks off; when they began to get obscene telephone calls, Bowman simply hung up, saying "wrong number, wrong number." The Bowmans did not realize then that the "pranks" were only the beginning of months of terror in which their spirits would gradually decay and their happiness disintegrate under the pressure of an unseen force...
...September, William and Elizabeth Bowman went on a trip to the East to try to recover their nerves. They returned to find all their windows smashed by bottles; their furniture had been ruined by inpouring rain. On Nov. 6, the tires on Bowman's car were slashed, and dents were pounded into its hood and sides. The next day, the windows were smashed, and on the house was written "Eichmann" in lipstick letters 20 inches high. On March 16, a fire was set with a sulphur bomb on the fender of Bowman's car. Uncalled delivery trucks arrived...
...referee ruled that his death had come by overexertion while carrying out the duties of his employment, awarded Johnston's widow $11,466 in workmen's compensation. The commission itself later overruled its referee, only to be reversed, fortnight ago, by Denver District Court Judge Donald D. Bowman, who reinstated the award. Denver University, found the judge, paid Dean Johnston's fraternity dues and traveling expenses, expected him to attend Bar Association meetings. Ruled Judge Bowman: "The duties he was called upon to perform he did, not as William Gordon Johnston the individual, but as Dean Johnston...
...Johnston case, on its way this week to the Colorado Supreme Court, is not without precedent. New York has for some years held that physical or mental strain, resulting in a fatal heart attack, was overexertion under the workmen's compensation laws. But Judge Bowman ruled that Dean Johnston's fatal attack "constituted an accidental injury within the course and scope of his employment as dean." On that finding, the Johnston case could become a hallmark not in workmen's compensation but in the full field of life insurance. Said a worried insurance executive last week...
...Right to Work. For young Terry Bryant, coming home from World War II, the battles of Blackie Bowman are won and done. Labor is not a cause but a kind of male club, possibly even a career. As the happy warrior of a rubber-factory local, Terry rises to shop steward only to discover that his union is run by and for a pair of labor racketeers called the Slansky brothers. Obscenely jeered and jabbed at by the younger Slansky, Terry slugs his tormentor. In seeming collusion with the Slanskys, management promptly fires Terry. Digging up his combat-fatigue history...