Word: coopered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Owner Perini stole off to St. Louis, and quietly swung baseball's biggest deal in four years: for one mediocre pitcher and an estimated $50,000 in cash, he bought the Cardinals' temperamental fork-bailer Morton Cooper (his seven-year big-league record: 106 won, 60 lost). That ended Cooper's six-week salary squabble with the penny-pinching Cardinals, and it might even boost the Braves into the first division for the first time in eleven years...
...Cooper's purchase will also give the Braves a box-office attraction equal to their American League rivals-the Boston Red Sox' Dave Ferriss. Discharged from the Air Forces because of chronic asthma, Ferriss has thus far pitched six complete games, won them all (four shutouts) and allowed just three earned runs in 54 innings...
...over all the western clubs, but the blackest cloud was over the once-mighty Cardinals (who had only managed to break even in 26 games). First Marty Marion and Al Schoendienst went on the injured list, then Pitcher Max Lanier went home for probable induction. At this point Mort Cooper, the Cards' No. 1 pitcher, walked out. He still wanted his paycheck boosted to $15,000 or else (TIME, April...
...been suspended from filing any further news from the European Theater of Operations. A few took this as an indication that A.P. might have been wrong. But A.P., hot under the collar and sure of its facts, rushed in to join the issue. Cried A.P. President Kent Cooper, determined crusader for freedom of the press: "This suppression cuts squarely across the fundamental rights respecting freedom of information. . . . Vigorous representations have been made. . . . The right of peoples everywhere to know is at stake...
Though he is hampered by more stolid and much more pretentious material, Director Tay Garnett is still clearly the man who gave the melodramas Bataan and The Cross of Lorraine their honest intensity, and Cameraman Joseph Ruttenberg and several players-notably the Misses Cooper, Tandy and Hunt and Messrs. Peck and Crisp-add valuable services of their own. The main reason the picture will do well, though, is that it gives Greer Garson a chance at something...