Word: coopered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...safe to predict that neither program will be as sensational as the career of Wyllis Cooper, veteran radio dramaturge who writes NBC's show. From 1933 to 1936 Radioman Cooper wrote and directed the silo-of-blood programs called Lights Out. Late at night, so children couldn't hear them and have their little livers scared out of them, they gushed from Chicago's WMAQ and were beyond doubt the most goose-fleshing chiller-dillers in air history. At each broadcast's opening a deep, dark, dank voice would instruct listeners to put their lights...
There were about 600 Lights Out clubs in the U.S. when Mr. Cooper stopped writing the show to go to Hollywood to do picture scripts. A Kansas City, Mo. chapter whose meeting he attended had officers and by-laws and fined any member who spoke or lit a cigaret during broadcasts...
Typical of official miscuing were the statements that Britain's Ministers made throughout the week. Said Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper, two days after Hess's capture was announced: "His arrival here shows the first breach in the Nazi Party . . . since Hitler murdered a huge bloc of his own followers on June...
...first public reaction to the news in Britain and the Americas was the same as Duff Cooper's. Hess was played up as a "decent" Nazi who had escaped from the enemy camp, would undoubtedly aid the British...
President Niles Trammell of NBC persuaded musical General Manager Kent Cooper, 61, of A.P. to publish and broadcast the Cooper-dooper Dixie Girl. Mr. Cooper "wrote the lyric and music in 1923 and the rhythm is of that time." So is the lyric: Never knew such wonderful days, Glorious days, it seems. All because her wonderful ways Make life sweeter than dreams. Chorus: 'Way down in Dixie, In sunny Dixie, Some one's waitin'. Soon I'll be datin' My darlin' Dixie girl...