Word: ryley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young buck has gone? It seemed to him "a goodbye to the West, a goodbye to youth. . . . I began to find a meaning of my own young years." Fowler trained in the same up-from-cops school of journalism as Ben Hecht. Stanley Walker and the late Courtney Ryley Cooper, whose credo is that the old bars were the best, and that the only thing to do with a tall tale is to make it taller. Solo has many moments of awed moralizing, semi-penitential, Hollywood-haunted sentiment. But throughout runs a vein of the old, Rocky Mountain, free-&-easy...
Died. Courtney Ryley Cooper, 53, ex-circus clown, ex-newspaperman, ex-circus pressagent, G-Manly author (10,000 Public Enemies, Here's to Crime), prolific writer for magazines, radio, screen; by his own hand (hanging); in a Manhattan hotel closet...