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...violent racing-car death merely adds a crude exclamation point. John Garfield's Joe, moreover, never for a moment suggests a guy with music in his heart, let alone in his fingers. As staged by Odets, the production, which co-stars Lee J. (Death of a Salesman) Cobb, does not quite come together as a whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Mar. 24, 1952 | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

...Child." Cobina got her first good look at the century on her sheep-raising family's "several enormous ranches as big as counties, in the state of Oregon." There, in the early 1900s, as a poor little rich girl named Elaine Cobb, she grew up in the silence of the eternal hills. When the silence got on her nerves, she would holler-and she hollered so vigorously that her family allowed her to go off to Europe with a maiden aunt to have her voice trained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oregon Cyclone | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

...Cobb as the murderer's father gives a masterful performance. Shaken by the boy's decision not to confess, he finds himself defending the man who has been falsely accused. He tries to proceed without recognizing his peculiar position. The other characters involved have similar problems, all revolving around the action of the guilty boy, John Derek. Further comment would give way what amounts to an intensely absorbing plot...

Author: By Herbert S. Myers, | Title: Boots Malone and Family Secret | 2/9/1952 | See Source »

...ruling was directed at New Orleans' station WDSU, whose broadcast license was up for a routine renewal. Last year, in a mayoralty campaign, WDSU refused to let Candidate Alvin Cobb make a radio speech because the station's lawyers decided that some of his proposed statements were obviously libelous. The refusal, said the FCC, was a clear violation of the law which requires a station to give radio time to all candidates or none, and forbids any altering of any candidate's speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Political Pall | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...Tales of Tomorrow (Fri. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Lee J. Cobb in Test Flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Oct. 29, 1951 | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

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