Word: coopered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coopers. The Cardinals had more than their rookie outfielder to worry about. Their famed Cooper brothers-Pitcher Mort and Catcher Walker-went on a rampage when they found that Shortstop Marty Marion had been promised a raise over the club's $12,000 ceiling salary, threatened to quit unless their ante was upped from $12,000 to $15,000. The row was no morale booster for the Cards, whose team spirit had been a major factor in their three straight pennants...
...after the case was put up to the Commissioner's Office, Walker Cooper received an April 30 induction notice. His loss, as well as I-A Outfielder Johnny Hopp's, would lose the Cards their odds-on 4-to-5 position in the race...
...servant in the home of a mill owner (Donald Crisp) whom her legless, ex-millhand father (Lionel Barrymore) hates. She watches over the mill owner's stuffy, weak or shallow children (Dan Duryea, Marshall Thompson and Marsha Hunt respectively), becomes a bosom friend of his wife (Gladys Cooper), and falls in love with his one worthy son (Gregory Peck). After trying to help settle a labor dispute involving Montague Barrymore and Capulet Crisp, she withdraws to watch her lover endure a loveless marriage (Jessica Tandy). The movie, as usual, provides a happier ending than the book allowed. In spite...
...National League, the St. Louis Cardinals (quoted at odds-on 4-to-5) should keep their class if they can keep 1-A Catcher Walker Cooper. Manager Billy Southworth, who must replace Stan Musial (the league's No. 2 hitter last year with a .347 average), Johnny Hopp (.336) and Danny Litwhiler (.264), still has the best pitching staff (Mort Cooper, Max Lanier, Ted Wilks, Harry Brecheen, Blix Donnelly) in either league, and Shortstop Marty ("Most Valuable Player") Marion. Apparently capable of giving the three-time league champs a run for their money are two western rivals...
More an operetta than a musicomedy in treatment, The Firebrand of Florence largely dispenses with dance routines, specialty numbers, personalities (only nimble Melville Cooper as the nitwitted Duke of Florence makes himself felt...