Word: cooperates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...featured speaker of the day, the junior Senator from Kentucky, arrived late, after a chartered flight across the state and a hard drive up the mountainside. The day before, after a busy week in Washington, John Sherman Cooper had flown to Owensboro on the Ohio River for a busier day at the state VFW encampment. That night Republican Cooper and the Democrat who is running against him, grizzled old Alben Barkley, had spoken at a sweltering, shirtsleeve banquet (the 106-degree temperature, said a native, was not as hot as hell; it was as hot as hackydam -four miles below...
...Mayking reunion was tailored to Cooper's measure. As he mounted the platform he looked every inch the mountainman he is. His 14-minute speech was packed with platitudes ("I hope that in these times of trouble we can, like the ancient Greeks, draw upon the wisdom, the heart and soul, of those who went before us"), which the sophisticated Cooper could chuckle over later, still recognizing and reverently respecting their basic truth. Afterwards, Cooper drifted among the patches of family groups, diligently shaking hands. He ate a huge helping-fried chicken, cornbread sticks, deviled eggs, stringbeans and bacon...
...first and freshest pictorial record of Indian life west of the Mississippi was made during the 1830s by iron-willed George Catlin. The civilized world had been taught to regard the Indians either as demigods (by James Fenimore Cooper) or as demihumans (by frontiersmen's reports). Catlin showed them as they were and as they lived. His pictures came as a revelation to Manhattan, London and Paris...
...part in a movie (Fourteen Hours-TIME, March 12, 1951) got Grace her first big Hollywood role-Gary Cooper's wife in High Noon. After that success, M-G-M signed her to a seven-year contract...
Married. Jackie Cooper, 32, ball-nosed onetime cinemoppet (Skippy, The Champ) turned Broadway actor (King of Hearts') ; and Barbara Kraus, 26, a Manhattan ad-agency production assistant; he for the third time, she for the first; in Washington...