The Press: The Inland Empire's Voice

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League's Press (which had no connection with the Scripps-Howard chain), folded.

Since his father's death in 1946, the boss of the Spokane papers has been W. H. Cowles Jr., now 49. Unlike his father, who held a firm finger on the whole operation, diffident "Billy" Cowles leaves the Review news department to 38-year-old Managing Editor James Bracken. Though the paper still covers its region like a tent, it no longer has its former editorial prowess. Bracken has been trying to restore it by scraping some of the moss off the Review's Republicanism to bring it more in line with the increasing industrialization of the area. His progress has not been empire-shaking. Many a Spokane citizen still pines for a chance to read news that isn't Cowles's news.