Word: cooperating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas Cole, founder of the "Hudson River School" of landscape artists. A contemporary of James Fenimore Cooper, Cole painted the first grandiose pictures of the U. S. wilderness...
From Paramount Pictures' publicity department: "Gary Cooper sent one of his shirt tails to a Ladies' Aid Society in Rapid City, S. D., in response to the following letter: 'In an effort to raise money for the church, we are making ladies' kitchen aprons out of shirt tails of noted men. We would appreciate it very much if you would be good enough to send us one of your shirt tails. We thank you very much and hope to be able to reciprocate some time...
From the United Press at Rapid City: "Local Ladies' Aid Societies deny they are or have been interested in Gary Cooper's shirt tails . . . ask . . . where the story originated so they may take steps to quash...
...until 1907, 14 years after General Doubleday's death, that a research committee definitely established Cooperstown as the birthplace of baseball. Civic-proud Cooperstownians, whose pastoral background had already been immortalized as the home town and nameplace† of James Fenimore Cooper, bought the original baseball field, spent $25,000 to transform it into a modern ball park and public playground, named it Doubleday field. Three years ago, in anticipation of the 100th birthday of the game, baseball bigwigs and benefactors joined hands to make Cooperstown a bigger, better shrine. To preserve its treasures, baseball sentimentalists decided to build...
...Cooperstown was founded by Novelist Cooper's father, Judge William Cooper...