Word: bowmans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They represented awards in damage suits and clearly implied that "there is nothing like money." On the waiting-room table was "a poop-sheet of the trade organization of personal-injury lawyers. It was advertising a seminar on how to get the big verdicts." As a "plodding general practitioner," Bowman reports with tongue-in-cheek hyperbole that he learned many a practical lesson on his visit to this "arche typical" personal-injury firm. His account, of course, is fictional, but the American Bar Association Journal found it fascinating enough to print...
...class because he had too many irons in the fire," recalls his college dean, Dr. Alfred H. Nolle, who pegs Lyndon's overall average at a B. He once got an F - in a physical-education course. He became known as "Bull" Johnson, recalls classmate Gladys Snavely Bowman, because "he was always promoting something and had such drive...
Both teams went out fast on the 2,8-mile course, but by the two-mile mark, a Brown trio of Bob Busick, George Bowman, and Chip Ennis and a lone Harvard pretender, Steve Marx, settled at the front of the pack...
Then Marx started to fade--and with him Harvard's hopes, until the Crimson's Bob Stempson made his stretch move. In the last 150 yards Stempson swept by Bowman and Ennis, crossing the line 10 yards behind Busick, and Harvard was back in the race...
Speaking for the industry, Reynolds Tobacco Chairman Bowman Gray called the order " unwise, unwarranted." Tobacco men charged that the FTC had exceeded its authority, made plans to test the case in the courts. They got plenty of support from Southern Governors and Congressmen. Officials in the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, and Health, Education and Welfare wondered whether they should have jurisdiction in the matter instead of the in dependent FTC - or whether any labeling rule should be enforced at all. Even some of the sharpest critics of the industry questioned the legality and propriety of the order. Surgeon General Luther...