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LESTER H. DUMMER Concordia Lutheran Seminary Springfield...
Grandson of wealthy, ardent Republican Samuel Bowles, who edited the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, Bowles got proper schooling (Choate, Yale), left the family newspaper (he opposed his father's opposition to the League of Nations) for Madison Avenue, where he and Friend William Benton organized the highly successful advertising agency, Benton & Bowles. (Bowles's contribution to Hellmann's Mayonnaise: "Double-whipped.") By 1941, Bowles had made himself a million dollars, "retired" at 40 and set out to double-whip the world...
...Stevenson. After wartime service on Navy subchasers, Day went briefly back to his Chicago practice, quit in 1949 to help out Old Friend Stevenson, newly elected as Governor of Illinois, as an administrative assistant in Adlai's "kitchen cabinet." Day entertained the backroom boys with homemade limericks on Springfield politics, eventually became state insurance commissioner. The job was a stepping-stone to a second career: after Stevenson's presidential defeat in 1952, Day joined the Prudential Insurance Co., rose to one of the top spots (behind President Carrol Shanks), as chief of the firm's western division...
...Jumbos, an incongruous nickname for a team listing no starter over 6 ft., 3 in., have beaten only Middlebury in five starts, and lost to New Hampshire, Clark, Springfield, and Coast Guard...
...Where Springfield had two outstanding swimmers in Ken Kanny and Hank Holte, Brown has two and perhaps more. Junior John Morris will be a major threat in the freestyle, while his classmate Prentice de Jesus will be the man to beat in the butterfly...