Word: kent
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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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...
...University lightweights will not be rowing their first race for they have already opened their season in a race with the Kent crew during vacation. That duel ended in a dead heat. Their opponents Saturday have already tasted victory, for in the Navy-M. I. T.-Columbia regatta last Saturday they came out ahead by a goodly margin...
After two days' practice in Connecticut the Harvard University 150-pound boat, and the Kent eight, rowing over the Henley distance on the Housatonic river, raced to the finish in a dead heat. The time was 6 minutes, 35 seconds. The Kent oarsmen, who sail in June for the royal Henley regatta in England, drew abreast of the University lightweights after trailiing by half a length at the three-quarter mile mark...
...Second University 150-pound boat defeated the schoolboy seconds by a margin of three lengths in another race; making a time of six minutes, 43 seconds to the Kent oarsmen's six minutes, 54 seconds...