Word: cooperativeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Althea, the U.S.L.T.A. championships no longer belonged to the U.S. For the second year in succession, the men's final was an all-Australian affair. First-seeded Ashley Cooper, 20, faced unseeded Malcolm Anderson, 22. A stocky student who turned down a brace of scholarships at Australian universities to concentrate on tennis, Cooper had been the favorite all week long. Slim, moody Mai Anderson, son of a Queensland cattle rancher, had been playing such mediocre tennis before Forest Hills that he almost missed a berth in the tournament...
...Cooper, for one, knew he was in for no easy time. During the week he had watched Mai, who had never tried bowling before he went to Forest Hills, go out for an evening's entertainment and bowl a respectable 200. He had also watched Mai on the tennis courts, whipping America's awkward in-and-outer Dick Savitt in straight sets. This was one week when Mai Anderson's luck seemed all good...
THUS wrote James Fenimore Cooper of the Marquis de Lafayette, shortly after the portrait opposite was painted. Cooper's words give some idea of the size of the task that faced Samuel Finley Breese Morse when he came to paint the portrait in 1826. Morse painted the picture just after his wife died, and he apologized later: "A picture painted under such circumstances can scarcely be expected to do the artist justice, and, as a work of art, I cannot praise...
...last years of Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor, were filled with riches and honors; he lived to see a statue of himself erected in Central Park. But the "failure" of his painting hopes never ceased to rankle. "Alas," the artist-inventor wrote to his friend Cooper, "the very name of pictures produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe. Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me. I did not abandon her; she abandoned me. I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter...
...Fethard to comfort the Protestant flock of 25 and advised them to meet their Catholic boycotters with "smiling faces" ("Fethard unphair to Protestants" punned the press). Letters flooded the newspapers with suggestions, e.g., all Ireland's Protestants should buy from Leslie Gardner's hardware shop and Betty Cooper's news agency-grocery in Fethard. Northern Ireland Unionists urged the government to start a fund for the boycotted Protestants, and a group of Belfast aircraft workers raised $400 in a cap collection...