Word: cooperativeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the Kentucky Republican State Central Committee got the news that it was hoping to hear. From John Sherman Cooper came a telegram saying that he would give up his job as Ambassador to India after all, and would run for the unexpired (four years) U.S. Senate term of the late Alben Barkley...
...able John Cooper, twice elected to unexpired terms and twice defeated for full terms in the Senate,* the decision was an about-face from his earlier statements. Reason for the change of heart: President Eisenhower had personally persuaded him to run (against Kentucky's former Governor Lawrence W. Wetherby). Cooper could not fail to get the nomination: moreover, his standing in Kentucky would give him a better-than-even chance of winning the election...
...Cooper was at least the third candidate personally recruited this year by President Eisenhower in an effort to people the Congress with his kind of Republicans (others: Oregon's Douglas McKay, Washington's Arthur Langlie). Among both politicians and pundits, Cooper's decision was widely accepted as a sign that Ike himself is planning to run again...
...Upsets studded the first week of the All-England championships at Wimbledon, which more than ever seemed to be dominated by Australian men and U.S. women. Egypt's Jaroslav Drobny, 1954 champion, was beaten by an Indian with a rapier backhand called Ramanathan Krishnan. Ashley Cooper, the 19-year-old Australian whiz, beat third-seeded Sven Davidson of Sweden, and then Cooper himself was outlasted by unsung Allen Morris, onetime Georgia Tech footballer. Elegant Budge Patty, 1950 champion and seeded fourth, was ousted by Britain's hard-hitting but erratic 20-year-old Bobby Wilson. Luis Ayala...
...five, his talent for drawing had shown itself. Sitting under his father's drafting tables, he busily turned out his own versions of door details and houses. Encouraged by his mother, he progressed to blood-and-thunder pictures of Indians he had read about in James Fenimore Cooper (he can still rattle off the names of 30 tribes) and knights from Ivanhoe. At twelve he was proficiently drawing nudes-a common sight in the house, since Eliel Saarinen was then busy designing Finland's national currency, using nude models (while grandfather Juno Saarinen, a Lutheran minister...