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Pioneering host Jack Cooper modeled success as broadcaster, businessman

Before Herb Kent “The Cool Gent,” before Don Cornelius, before Bernadine C. Washington, before Roy Wood Sr., Yvonne Daniels, Daddy-O Daylie, “The Baron of Bounce” Lucky Cordell, Jockey Jack or Al Benson, there was Jack L. Cooper.

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