Word: cooperative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pfizer Co. Smith, a shy man with an intense dislike of publicity, was born in Germany, came to the U.S. at the age of three. He learned some chemistry in school, was further helped by his father, who had taken a correspondence course in it. Later, Smith attended Cooper Union, but left before getting his degree to go to work as a laboratory assistant at Pfizer's. In 1945 he was named president. A baseball fan, he now owns a 25% interest in the Brooklyn Dodgers...
...Confirmed the nominations of: 1) onetime Tennessee Governor Prentice Cooper as Ambassador to Peru; 2) Careerman Walter Thurston as Ambassador to Mexico; 3) Judge William Hastie as Governor of the Virgin Islands-the first Negro to hold the post...
...young buck has gone? It seemed to him "a goodbye to the West, a goodbye to youth. . . . I began to find a meaning of my own young years." Fowler trained in the same up-from-cops school of journalism as Ben Hecht. Stanley Walker and the late Courtney Ryley Cooper, whose credo is that the old bars were the best, and that the only thing to do with a tall tale is to make it taller. Solo has many moments of awed moralizing, semi-penitential, Hollywood-haunted sentiment. But throughout runs a vein of the old, Rocky Mountain, free-&-easy...
...Scoops? Authors Leigh & White are critical of the "slave-press" countries, but believe that the barrier-breaking problem "is not made easier by the fact . . . that the so-called 'free press' countries sometimes preach more zealously than they practice. . . . What newspapermen really want is what Kent Cooper, executive director of the A. P., calls 'the right to roam the world at will, writing freely of what they see and feel.' ... It means ... an equal opportunity to use their wits to create unequal success. . . . Sorely tempted, a New York Times's Raymond Daniell will join...
...Braves might make the first division if Billy Southworth's methodical magic worked and Mort Cooper's ailing arm got well. Pittsburgh and Cincinnati seemed to be heading for the lower half. The biggest little effort would come from the Phillies, managed by onetime Yankee Ben Chapman. They had corralled every available has-been from both leagues, to try to get out of the cellar...