Word: cooperstown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Alfred Corning Clark, 45, heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, just 14 days after he married his sixth wife, 30-year-old Painter Alicja Darr Purdom; in his sleep; in Cooperstown...
Married. Alfred Corning Clark, 45, multimillionaire scion of the Singer Sewing Machine clan; and Alicja Darr (nee Kopczynska) Purdom, 30, Polish-born painter once stormily married to Cinemactor Edmund Purdom; he for the sixth time (in 20 years), she for the second; in Cooperstown...
...first American novelist to enjoy literary success in Europe was an ex-naval officer from upstate New York named James Fenimore Cooper. His father, a rich landowner, founded Cooperstown, N.Y., where Abner Doubleday was to invent baseball, but where Cooper made an even greater invention-the noble red man and the heroic myth of the American frontier. On Cooper's novels of the New York wilderness-The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer-rests the somewhat guarded claim of the Encyclopaedia Britannica that he is "the most important man of letters ever connected with Yale...
...Record. This month the association's graceful Fenimore House in Cooperstown, N.Y. will open an exhibition of 81 of the 175 paintings that Clark bought for the museum. Added to the museum's already extensive collection of Americana, this magpie's treasure gives a strangely touching glimpse into the often painful efforts of a young society to put itself on record. The show has its share of gentle snow scenes and of stiff little battles being fought by toylike soldiers...