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...Using the artist's drawings and paintings, film clips of the backgrounds of his life, and his own words, the program has Martin Gabel as narrator and Lee J. Cobb speaking the lines of Van Gogh. Color...
...Israeli struggle for independence from British stewardship and Arab hatred, called EXODUS -- after a novel of that name to which it also bears but slight resemblance. The cast is as large as the film is long; stars include Paul Newman, Eve Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb and (inevitably) Sal Mineo. Afternoons and evenings...
Lonely and unhappy, Cobb mellowed in recent years, tried to recast his own public image. "If I had my career to live over," he said, "I know I'd do some things differently." He chartered a foundation that gives 40 scholarships each year to needy Georgia college students. He built a 'hospital for his home town of Royston, Ga., gave it stocks that help the hospital turn a tidy profit...
Last month, afflicted with cancer, diabetes and chronic heart disease, Cobb checked into Atlanta's Emory University Hospital. With him, he carried $1,000,000 worth of negotiable securities that he placed on a table beside his bed and covered with a revolver. Then last week, at 74, Ty Cobb died...
Died. Tyrus Raymond Cobb, 74, baseball's unmatched immortal; of cancer; in Atlanta (see SPORT...