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...last February, trim, 29-year-old Geraldyn Cobb packed a single suitcase, said goodbye to her fellow workers at Aero Design and Engineering Co. in Bethany, Okla., and left for a supposed week's vacation with her parents in Ponca City, 90 miles away, Jerrie Cobb never reached home...
...they wanted in the old days was plenty of wood," recalls Bickel. Ty Cobb swung a 42-oz. bat, and Babe Ruth sometimes used bats weighing 48 oz. But styles have changed, and players now prefer lighter bats that they can swing more quickly. The Cubs' Ernie Banks uses a 31-oz. bat; the Giants' Willie Mays never goes heavier than 33 oz. The shape has changed too. Only White Sox Second Baseman Nellie Fox still uses a thickhandled bat; the rest prefer a slim handle. H. & B. keeps an index of the types...
...should fit in with the scenery. Until a new boss can be found at Babbitt, Alfred I. Schimpf, the board chairman, will serve as chief executive officer. In line for the top job: new President Michael P. Frawley, 55, who moved up from executive vice president.¶ George Lane Cobb, 49, resigned as president and chief executive officer...
...largest U.S. variety-store chain (1959 sales: $154,422,000). He was brought to Kress two years ago, after the top management resigned to avert a proxy fight. Trustees of the Kress Foundation, which holds 42% of the stock, had balked at the lagging company's conservative policies. Cobb expanded into new merchandise, but he failed to stop the sales slide, which has continued every year but one since 1952. For the first five months of 1960, sales fell off 5.6%, and the directors cut the quarterly dividend from 50? to 25?. At the annual meeting in May. Cobb...
...roles of Cervantes and Don Quixote were played by Lee J. Cobb, 47, an excellent performer whose own search for truth has sometimes been confused. A would-be actor since his New York City College days, Cobb sold radios before he got into the old Group Theater, was on his way up, and starred memorably in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, before he was named in a congressional investigation as a former Communist. Cobb publicly denounced Communism, testified about other Red actors, and was given a meaty part in On the Waterfront by Elia Kazan...