Word: coops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Williams: "We weren't trying for top firing speed with the big gun. . . . We might get up as high as 30 a minute." Any such rate of fire would take some doing. Two men load and fire the 75. The loader has to kneel in a tiny steel coop. Between the breech and a bulkhead, he has about three feet in which to work. When the gun recoils, he has something less than two feet. At 30 rounds a minute, the loader must, every two seconds, extract a 75-mm. shell casing from a semiautomatic breech, allow a split...
Since then he has been commentator on the radio program of John Kirby's swing band and opened a fried-chicken joint-The Chicken Coop-in Harlem. "You know how it is," he says, "if I had my life to live over again I'd go back to the ring...
...Dramatic Club. The male lead is played by James A. Doherty 2L, while Prince Albert is Charles Baker '43, and Father Hyacinth is Joseph B. Smith '44. Playing opposite Doherty is Miss Ella J. Van Horn '43. Tickets can be obtained at Agassiz House or at the Coop...
...home their social life consists largely of tennis, bridge or backgammon with cinema people including such special friends as Tyrone Power & Annabella, the Fred MacMurrays, the Robert Taylors, the Joel McCreas. Coop eats enormously, smokes and drinks very little, gets into old clothes whenever possible, sleeps a great deal at home and naps constantly and at will on the lot. Stripped of his Hollywood appurtenances and fan-magazine mysticism, this national phenomenon is what he has been for years-an extremely good-natured Montana sportsman. He is daft about guns (his favorite: a .22 Hornet with a German telescope sight...
...Coop has recently also become a noteworthy family man. Maria Veronica Balfe Cooper was born three years ago. Some time later Mrs. Cooper took the baby to Phoenix, Ariz., when Coop was going on location for the desert picture Beau Geste in the sandy wastes of Arizona's Buttercup Valley, 19 miles east of Yuma. In Phoenix the baby got sick. After working a while, Coop wanted to phone Phoenix about her, but the nearest phone was in Yuma and a wild sandstorm was blocking the wooden road that led out of the Valley to the State road. Coop...