Publisher. Founder of Look Magazine. Along with his father, Gardner Cowles, Sr., they parlayed purchases of several mid-west papers into the Cowles Media Company. He died at the age of 82.
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Gardner Cowles (1903-1985)
publisher, was born at Algona, Iowa and was educated at Philips Exeter Academy and Harvard University. His career in journalism began with work on the Des Moines Register, on which he advanced from city editor to publisher. As president of Cowles Magazines, Inc. he founded several successful publications, best-known of which is Look magazine.
~ The Lincoln Library of Essential Information, Volume 2, Thirty-Fifth Edition, 1972, Biography, Page 1774
Contributor: Dead Ringer (46986571) •
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Gardner Cowles (1903-1985)
publisher, was born at Algona, Iowa and was educated at Philips Exeter Academy and Harvard University. His career in journalism began with work on the Des Moines Register, on which he advanced from city editor to publisher. As president of Cowles Magazines, Inc. he founded several successful publications, best-known of which is Look magazine.
~ The Lincoln Library of Essential Information, Volume 2, Thirty-Fifth Edition, 1972, Biography, Page 1774
Contributor: Dead Ringer (46986571) •
Publisher. Founder of Look Magazine. Along with his father, Gardner Cowles, Sr., they parlayed purchases of several mid-west papers into the Cowles Media Company. He died at the age of 82.
******
Gardner Cowles (1903-1985)
publisher, was born at Algona, Iowa and was educated at Philips Exeter Academy and Harvard University. His career in journalism began with work on the Des Moines Register, on which he advanced from city editor to publisher. As president of Cowles Magazines, Inc. he founded several successful publications, best-known of which is Look magazine.
~ The Lincoln Library of Essential Information, Volume 2, Thirty-Fifth Edition, 1972, Biography, Page 1774
Contributor: Dead Ringer (46986571) •
******
Gardner Cowles (1903-1985)
publisher, was born at Algona, Iowa and was educated at Philips Exeter Academy and Harvard University. His career in journalism began with work on the Des Moines Register, on which he advanced from city editor to publisher. As president of Cowles Magazines, Inc. he founded several successful publications, best-known of which is Look magazine.
~ The Lincoln Library of Essential Information, Volume 2, Thirty-Fifth Edition, 1972, Biography, Page 1774
Contributor: Dead Ringer (46986571) •
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