Word: cobb
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...year in the Program, the Curator's office just could not attune itself to the interests of the Fellows." Carl Cobb. Boston Globe medical reporter and one of a dozen American newspapermen picked to study here in 1969-1970 on the Nieman Fund said yesterday. "The irrevelance to us of scheduled speakers led us to invite our own and hold underground seminars" Cobb said...
Daly will look into Cobb's complaints echoed in letters a number of recent Nieman Fellows have sent to the University. The chief gripe is that Sargent invites too many publishers, circulation directors and obscure academicians as weekly speakers, and not enough active writers...
...Cobb also said Sargent "shepherded funds inequitably." "Somehow the Dwight Sargent-sponsored events always seemed to occur in the top of the Holyoke Center or at an expensive club. If the Fellows brought up a speaker we had to settle for beer and cheese at the Faculty Club. And we often had to foot the hotel and airline bills for our guests from our own pockets," Cobb said...
...town near Ocala, is above the Chamber of Commerce come-on. The town bills itself as the "Home of the World's Largest Bass," and everywhere from the Dinner Bell Restaurant to Bass Galore Village ("Fishing Headquarters, U.S.A.") are mounted specimens to prove it. Up at Joe L. Cobb Inc., Realtors, Joe has a photograph on the wall memorializing the morning he and a friend boated 18 bass totaling 124 Ibs. in "2½ wild and wonderful hours." Down at Bucky's Sports Center, the natives tell of the local version of the Loch Ness monster, a wicked...
Some House committees are planning to circulate petitions among members of their Houses. Robert Cobb '72, chairman of the Winthrop House Committee, said that the committee had met with the Master and some Winthrop tutors and wrote a "declaration on free speech...