Word: outdoorsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Bradley looked the part of an outdoorsman. His G.I. trousers were stuffed into high paratroop boots. Under his old, stained trench coat he wore an issue combat jacket. His shirt, tie and field cap with its three stars were all issue. His tall (just over six feet), lanky, comfortably sprawling figure was anything but dashing. But his dark grey eyes, flashing from under heavy black brows in a homely, bony face ranged wide, missed nothing...
...Cinemactor Cooper manages to suggest these qualities by being his shy, loping, American self. Cooper's right-handedness faced Hollywood with an appalling problem (Gehrig was a lefty). It was solved by having Cooper bowl, punch a bag, throw pebbles, rocks, finally a baseball, lefthanded. Batting came easier; Outdoorsman Cooper always swings an ax from his left shoulder...
...reporter found him beside his street cleaner's can, brushing off the northwest corner of 61st Street and 20th Avenue. Scholar Goldstein greeted him with a professional outdoorsman's observation: "The average citizen doesn't realize it, but already some leaves are falling...