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...autobiography, Barriers Down, former Associated Press Chief Kent Cooper described how a cartel of European press agencies controlled all the news that flowed into and out of the U.S. until well into the 1930s. "It told the world about the Indians on the warpath in the West, lynchings in the South and bizarre crimes in the North ... nothing creditable to America ever was sent," Cooper complained...
...time, plague was in the air, and the death of kings implied an unimaginable catastrophe. Racism and superstition prevailed. Occupations that are now obsolete dot his plays: cooper, wheelwright, alchemist, bellman. His language glitters with marvelous words that have, alas, also become obsolete: porpentine (porcupine); swound (faint); german (akin); caitiff (wretch); borthens (the hair of corpses); grise (a stair); bisson (blind). However immortal, Shakespeare, no less than Aristophanes or Mozart, needs his modern interpreters...
Perhaps celebrity is bad for the talent. In any case, Panama is fairly minor McGuane. In his tale, Chester Hunnicutt Pomeroy is an overnight American superstar rapidly descending to the white-dwarf stage. His act, something along the lines of Alice Cooper's, only more so, included a routine in which he crawled out of an elephant's behind and dueled with a baseball pitching machine. Now, his brainpan made porous by drugs, Pomeroy has withdrawn to Key West, where he maniacally stalks his old love Catherine. A man with a lot less charm or interest than...
...Stephen Cooper, press secretary for Hatch, said that one of King's own campaign aides first made this charge. He referred to an article in the September 20 issue of the Boston Globe, in which an aide said of King's campaign: "We created a hate campaign. We put all the hate groups into one big pot and let it boil...
...House Select Committee on Assassinations from an all-star cast that included, remarkably, Castro, ex-CIA Director Richard Helms, former Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach and the three surviving members of the Warren Commission: former President Gerald Ford, former Kennedy Adviser John J. McCloy and former Senator John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky...