Word: hooper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Office of Strategic Services was producing propaganda material to be beamed across the battlefronts into Nazi Germany in 1942, but suspected its Hooper rating was low. In casting about for some way to lure more listeners to their radios, OSS remembered Marlene Dietrich. Her voice was far from the greatest in the world, but it had a haunting huskiness that Germans could well remember from such early Dietrich movies as The Blue Angel and from dozens of records (Jonny, Mein Blondes Baby, etc.). Actress Dietrich agreed. OSS picked familiar pop tunes and gave them brand-new German lyrics; Dietrich...
...Californian Parry O'Brien, who led the U.S.'s Darrow Hooper and Jim Fuchs to a 1-2-3 sweep in the shotput. O'Brien's winning toss...
This year, as usual, the U.S. team is strongest in track & field events. No one seems to stand a chance against the U.S.'s three shot-putters, Parry O'Brien, Darrow Hooper and Jim Fuchs, all capable of beating the European record by a good two feet. In the pole vault, an event the U.S. has lost only once, the Americans this year have two 15-footers, Rev. Bob Richards and Don Laz, who are expected to finish one-two, with the U.S.'s George Mattos in third place. The best U.S. high jumper, Walt Davis...
...Shotputters Darrow Hooper, Parry O'Brien and Jim Fuchs (world record-holder), who have all tossed the 16-lb. ball better than 57 feet. Olympic record...
Philadelphia (Hooper) 4, New York...