Word: cooperating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite an impressive contingent of crack newsmen-among them Damon Runyon, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Burns Mantle and Gene Fowler-the paper read like a circus flyer. For an editorial page, Tammen and Bonfils substituted invective, raked up so much scandal-a good deal of it true-that they kept a loaded shotgun in their office to discourage reader complaints. As the Post grew in power and prosperity, its proprietors branched into other fields; the Post became the first and last U.S. daily ever to own a circus (Sells-Floto), run a burlesque house and sell coal...
...Builder John B. Kelly Sr., 70, mending after an operation for intestinal adhesions and buoyed up by a visit from his daughter, Princess Grace of Monaco; Eugene Dennis, 54, chairman of the Communist Party in the U.S., bedded in a Manhattan hospital after surgery for lung cancer; Cinemactor Gary Cooper, 59, whose prospects for recovery were "good" after he underwent major intestinal surgery for an undisclosed ailment in a Hollywood hospital...
Prima-donna manners were rampant on both sides. Equity Chief Counsel Herman Cooper (President Ralph Bellamy was busy in Hollywood, playing F.D.R. in the movie version of Sunrise at Campobello) announced that the union would not go on strike, would simply call evening "meetings" of various casts, shutting down a different show every night. When the union started this "legal harassment" with The Tenth Man, the producers regarded it as a strike, closed all Broadway shows...
Libel & Vampires. Cooper became bitter about critics who complained of both his style of writing and of living. His letters rumble with snarls against such "jackals" and "vampires"-back home he sued several of them for libel, and won. Perhaps he had stayed in Europe too long; on his return he seemed out of step with Jacksonian America, and though he wrote many more novels-including several highly popular Leatherstocking tales-he could not really regain the favor of critics or public...
Despite occasional critical attempts to rescue him from the juvenile field, Cooper has never really recovered his reputation. For all the journals' odd historical interest, Compiler Beard seems to have performed his scholastic labors in defiance of the Clerihew...