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Federal investigators began looking into the hospital scandal after James A. Cobb Jr., a Louisiana attorney who represented other health-care operators, filed a suit against the state. "The people I represent are decent, hardworking people who didn't get a fair shake," Cobb complained. Once the probe was under way, Cobb contends, he got anonymous telephone threats. One caller, according to Cobb, said, "My friend, you really don't know what you're messing around with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking a Louisiana Mud Bath | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...roadsters, electrical engineer training courses endorsed by Thomas Edison, and a notice that Macy's Department Store will be moving to Herald Square accompany notice of a Washington Senators victory. Rube Marquard and Smokey Joe Wood no-hitters, and boxscores full of names like Tris Speaker, Ty Cobb and Fred Merkle. Indeed, Ritter introduces many players with excepts from Spalding's Base Ball Guide circa 1909, John J. McGraw's My Thirty Years in Baseball, a scene from The Great Gatsby, or a snatch of Carl Sandburg poetry...

Author: By T. NICHOLAS Dawidoff, | Title: They Stopped Too Soon | 1/11/1985 | See Source »

When Professor Cobb** chose to resign...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Design School Grants Tenure To Professor From Spain | 12/18/1984 | See Source »

...Henry N. Cobb. Professor of Architecture and Urban Design

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Design School Grants Tenure To Professor From Spain | 12/18/1984 | See Source »

...display of schizophrenic coordination. Watch right-side Edwina take control in a courtroom, as left-side Roger falls asleep and the ever-so-feminine Edwina moves "their" body in a grotesquely macho strut. The actor's challenge is impossibly complicated−Steve Martin playing Lily Tomlin playing Roger Cobb−and beautifully realized. The rest of All of Me is no tour de farce; some jokes are missing, others misfire, and the visual style is deadpan and pedestrian. But Tomlin gets laughs and poignancy from a character who for most of the film is visible only when Roger looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Split Personality | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

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