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Unfortunately, the Red Sox have been weak in the pitching department, and, as Ty Cobb once remarked, if you haven't got it there, well, maybe you just don't have it. Take for example Mike Fornieles' relief stint yesterday: single, walk single, wild pitch, walk, and hit batsman (poor old Gene Woodling). Not bad for one afternoon...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Red Sox Defeat Senators, Into Second Position | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...because of Rudolph Valentino, an actor who expressed passion by bulging his eyeballs and moodily waggling his whipstock. Undaunted, M-G-M decided to risk a remake of Horsemen. With the help of Director Vincente Minnelli (Gigi), eight big-name players (Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer, Lee J. Cobb, Paul Lukas, Yvette Mimieux, Karl Boehm, Paul Henreid) and a $6,000,000 budget, the new production manages in several respects to be even sillier than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Horsemen Get a Ford | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

Barnaby says Niederhoffer is "a Ty Cobb of a competitor--he's only lost one match he should have won--against McGill in the opening match of the season...

Author: By Jonathan D. Trobe, | Title: Squash Tyro Niederhoffer Ranks Second in Ivy League Standings | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

...Strasberg once asked him who his favorite actor was. "I hesitated," Peter remembers, "and said. 'A cross between Laurence Olivier and Lee J. Cobb.' If he asked me that today. I'd say my father. I think my father is the best actor I've ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Springtime for Henry | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

...against its smaller neighbors over the past 150 years. It serves Castro's purpose so well that he has had 150,000 copies printed in Spanish to be sold for 5? per copy. For whatever U.S. audience that could be reached, a New York Castro-phile named June Cobb translated it into English. U.S. publisher: Lyle Stuart, a Manhattan publisher of erotica and Castroite propaganda who has also served as treasurer of the New York branch of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guatemala: Echoes from a Sardine | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

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