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Little did Herbert Cooper of Brooklyn, Benjamin McReynolds of St. Louis, James Carson of Philadelphia, John Atwater of Rockville Centre, L. I., and seven other men in evening dress suspect when they joyfully and separately entered the Hollywood Restaurant on Broadway one night last week, that they would soon be hustled out as subjects for a prime Prohibition test-case in Manhattan. The Hollywood is a popular middle-class night club of the post-Texas Guinan epoch. Its patrons are attracted by its moderate prices, its undress show. The place is Dry in that the management does not sell liquor...
...Messrs. Cooper, McReynolds, Carson, Atwater and some 300 other patrons were dancing, two dozen U. S. agents fell upon their tables, plucked at hip flasks and pint bottles, set the place into an uproar. Women shrieked and fainted. One tore the sleeve out of her escort's coat trying to drag him to safety. Arrested were eleven patrons on the charge of liquor possession (a misdemeanor under the Volstead Act), 16 employes charged with providing "set-ups." Through a hooting, jeering Broadway crowd, the 27 men were taken to the police station, later held in $500 or more bail...
General Manager Kent Cooper's address savored of a reply to Editor Oswald Garrison Villard's bitter attack on what he construed to be a shabby popularizing of the A. P. which would cause Melville E. Stone (a founder) to "turn over in his grave." Speaking about a night on a train he had spent with Founder Stone, during which Stone appeared equally at ease before a group of flagmen and a onetime premier of Canada, said General Manager Cooper...
...Melville E. Stone [an A. P. founder] must be turning in his grave if he is aware of the kind of sob stuff that is now appearing in the Associated Press reports. . . . Mr. Kent Cooper, the present able general manager . . . has broken with tradition after tradition of the service- the comic strips are his latest venture. So the Associated Press has long since abandoned its original conception of being a service devoted exclusively to the gathering of news; it is now engaged in the merchandising of purely amusement features. ... I append two of them [human interest stories] which I clipped...
Lady Diana Duff-Cooper, onetime Miracle nun, driving from Bognor to Lon- don, smashed into another car, was taken to a hospital suffering cut knees, shock...