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...rising young Republicans; the other frequently talked Republican politics among his neighbors. Each was in a business that kept him away from home a lot, and each flew in his own private plane. In fact, as it turned out last week, the two men were really one: William Edward Cobb, 39, whose double life, as it became public last week, shook North Carolina's Republican Party and probably put an end to a budding political career...
...Yaleman Cobb's double life began three years ago on a business trip to Raleigh, where he met Linda Renfrew, then 31, a secretary who had won four beauty contests and divorced her husband. In August 1960, six months pregnant by Cobb, she moved into a house he rented for her. Cobb, known as "W. Edward Cobb," showed up in Roanoke only sporadically -he was thought to be an insurance claims adjuster and aircraft inspector whose work kept him traveling. In Morganton, where he was actually a successful lumber broker, he explained his frequent absences to his wife...
...TIME, July 13,* as North Carolina's G.O.P. chairman and one of the South's rising young Republicans, it was spotted by a neighbor in Roanoke. She called the Roanoke Times, which enlisted the aid of the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer. Last week two Observer reporters buttonholed Cobb as he was leaving a G.O.P. meeting in Morganton...
...Cobb invited them into his station wagon for a chat and, after they confronted him with curious similarities in the two lives, finally said with the hapless resignation of a man awakened from a beautiful dream: "Let's stop kidding around, fellows. You know the truth." Soon he issued a public statement: "I hold a deep affection for my legal wife and adopted son. I hold a deep affection for the mother of my two young natural sons. I intend to resign." He quit both the senatorial race and the state chairmanship...
North Carolina's William E. Cobb, 39, a slender, crew-cut lumber broker in Morganton, has been zealously building up his party since taking over the G.O.P. leadership in 1958. In 1960 Republican Robert L. Gavin managed to poll 46% of the vote for Governor. Cheered on by Cobb, nearly 1,000 delegates showed up at the annual state convention in March-nearly twice the expected number. Declared Cobb: "We are the nucleus of a political bombshell that can go off at any time...