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Like millions of other kids fighting the war, Seaman Jack Cooper had his next leave mapped out. He was going back to Elkhart, Ind., marry his girl Helen (he called her "Big Eyes"), put away some home-cooked meals. Like tens of thousands of others, Cooper never made it. Radioman on a Navy torpedo plane, he was shot down in the Pacific by the Japs, drifted for "weeks alone on a rubber raft. More than a month later a Navy vessel found the frail craft with Cooper's body and on paper leaves in his wallet a record...
...comedian $5,000 a week for it. It is produced in full costume, with scenery, because The Perfect Fool, who is anything but a fool, thinks he had better get ready for television. There is no announcer. Wynn, who claims to be the first man in radio to kid the commercials, takes very good care of that role himself...
Sirs: I worked with Ernie for five years on the Washington News, and I can testify to his wondrous hypochondria. The standing office gag was to ask Ernie every hour on the hour how he felt. He had only one reply through the years: "Terrible!" And I believe the kid meant it. He always looked it. Congratulations. A really wonderful piece. LEONARD HALL New York City...
...young marine's leg. He cried a little bit when we told him we had to do it. But next morning when I asked him how he felt, he grinned 'Okay! There's not so much of me to hurt now.' There was another kid who was in extremis when we brought him aboard. He had been shot from only a few feet away and he had a big hunk of his chest blown out. He pulled out of it somehow. When we got to talking to him we found that his attitude...
Divorced. Flight Officer Jackie ("The Kid") Coogan, 29, in the U.S. after combat duty with the Army Air Forces in India (TIME. March 27); by Flower Parry Coogan, 22, his second wife (first was Betty Grable); after three years of marriage (including two years of separation); in Hollywood...