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...Died. Mort Cooper, 45, right-handed pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals (1938-45) who won more than 20 games in the seasons of 1942 (National League Most Valuable Player), 1943 and 1944 pitching to his brother, Catcher Walker Cooper, as the Cardinals won three pennants and two World Series; of cirrhosis of the liver, complicated by a staphylococcal infection; in Little Rock...
Among the living bodies: Jeff Hunter, Myron McCormick, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Beth Hughes and Mort Sahl...
...dead end of Tobacco Road, and Novelist Erskine Caldwell mucked about in it so merrily that his novel has sold more than 8,000,000 copies in 25 years. Cleaned up for the cinema public, Caldwell's Acre still contains enough rich, smelly dirt to grow a mort of the sort of lettuce Hollywood loves best...
...wild applause, a shaggy, prune-faced man lunges onstage at Manhattan's Bijou Theater, his skinny torso masked by a loose red sweater, his hands feverishly clutching a rolled-up newspaper. Then Monologuist Mort Sahl, 30, star of The Next President, tigerishly launches into his act. He runs on and on and on, a Beat-Generation Cotton Mather who gives half the names in the news a beating, cracking his whip up Pennsylvania Avenue one minute, down Madison Avenue the next. Ostentatiously irreverent, he is at times witty, oftener merely outspoken...
...torture people-the real satisfaction comes when they can be made to beg for it. By an intricate series of Machiavellian maneuvers, De Paris involves four cadets, who think the whole sinister business is an almost innocent practical joke, in a plot. The idea is to siphon a mort of whisky through an enema nozzle into a fifth cadet and deposit his senseless body on the quadrangle one dark night. Next morning, when the boy is found and expelled from the academy for drinking on the campus. Jocko's hands are clean because so many others' are dirty...