The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-07-19
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL r. PARTON

Consolidated Features-WNU Service.D
NEW YORK.-Howard Lindsay
~ needed makeup to play Life
With Father" DR.. Charles Phillips
Cooper, managing editor of the New
Dr.. c. p. Cooper york s,,r Evening Ssa,ing
Natural Lead for the turn of
Life With Father the century,
walked right into the part without
taking off his hat. AS he retires as
professor of journalism at Columbia
university, after more than so years
of practicing and teaching journal
ism, he still commands affection and
respect from his one-time proteges,
an emotion somehow filial, and
somehow belonging in that nostal-
gic picture which the late Clarence
Day and Mr.. Lindsay and Russell
Grouse have recreated for the stage.
They used to set the type for the
old Evening Sun in the local room.
Charles A. Dana ordered some lino-
type machines, found workmen de-
livering them to the World instead,
got into a row about it and said to
the devil with the whole business,
or words to that effect. At any
rate this classic of newspapers for
many years thereafter kept clear of
all chronological entanglements, in
Guiding typewriters.
DIR. Co0per's spouting mus
tache was electrified during the
ordeal of getting out the paper.
Reporters used to say it was like
sensitive antennae, catching i'm
pulses out of the air. This was
the only way they could explain
his way of sp0tting a red-hot
news story in some bit of trivia,
moving across his desk. They
called him 'The Human Sieve"
That was due to his trick Of
sitting bugs, libel suits, and slop-
py writing out of piece Of copy
with swift slash Of his pencil.
When reporter was beaten on .
story, or made serious error, or
otherwise offended, DR.. Cooper
would clutch both sides of his desk,
lean back, close his eyes and howl.
And when one of the boys really
put something over Git had to be
good Dr.. Cooper would Groom and
cluck over him affectionately.
He was always yelling for
copy and the boys, if the story
was hot, had to write it in short
takes. There was always biz
card of copy paper loose in the
city room. As press time came
near there were yells, bleats,
running foot-beats and bed
lam which could be heard all up
and down Park Row. Out of
all this came a paper as cool
and neatly fashioned as a daisy
in the mead0w-human, subtle,
civilized and deity done. The
noise, smells of ink, grease and
tobacco, and above all, DIR.
Cooper's rip-snorting energies
seemed to make formula for
newspaper "0Omph."
DR.. Cooper, short and stocky,
Will il1o O1lSiI DAOWA eyes o1CIL dllQ
narrowly focused behind his glasses,
joined the Sun staff as reporter
in 1889, after year with the Hart
ford Conn., Post. He was with the
Sun "a years as city editor, news
editor, assistant managing editor
and managing editor. He retired to
become teacher of journalism in
1919.
Rounding IA, DR.. Cooper never
means over the good old days, and
has no regrets for the passing of
personalized journalism. He thinks
newspapers Of today are doing a
better job than their predecessors.
Among his colleagues were Arthur
Brisbane, Richard Harding Davis,
Woodford Patterson, now secretary
Of Cornell university, Nelson Lloyd,
O'Neill Sewer, George Cartaret,
Stephen French Whitman, Homer
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