Word: cochran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nebraska's able, pay-as-you-go Governor Robert LeRoy Cochran delighted Administration Democrats by beating anti-Roosevelt, anti-Labor Senator Edward R. Burke in the primaries last April. But snow-haired, colorless Hugh A. Butler, former G. O. P. National Committeeman, who was expected to lose the election, turned up with enough votes to beat Governor Cochran...
...being "the outstanding flyers of the world for 1939," the Ligue Internationale des Amateurs (headquarters: Manhattan) awarded the Harmon International Trophy to two New Yorkers: Jacqueline Cochran and Major Alexander P. ("Sascha") de Seversky. Pretty, 31-year-old Aviatrix Cochran is the wife of Wall Street Tycoon Floyd Odium, has won the award twice before.* In 1939 she became the first of her sex to make a blind landing, set five national and two international records, some of them in planes designed by Major Seversky. Sascha Seversky himself holds a handful of records despite having lost...
Last week in a letter to Variety from Surrey, England, famed Producer Charles B. Cochran lamented: "I was getting going again, but Hitler put me right out." Others beside Producer Cochran were put out. Of 43 theatres in London, all but 14 were dark, and even among the few plays still on the boards some teetered desperately on the brink. One walloping success of which the West End could boast was the hiss-the-villain Victorian cabaret, "Ridgeway's Late Joys," put on with beer and hot dogs at the Players' Theatre, atop an old five-story house...
Last week Missouri's Congressman John J. Cochran significantly took the attitude that there is much to be said on both sides. He told the President not to count too much on Congressional support for CAA Reorganization. He asked the press: "Don't you know that man [the President] is interested in safety, when he knows that some member of his family is traveling in an airplane every...
...show till he was 19. Playing in London are his autobiographical The Corn Is Green, packing them in after 600 performances, and The Light of Heart, story of a drunken, down-at-heel actor who gets his last chance to stage a comeback in a myth ical Charles B. Cochran production of King Lear...