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...Cobb, who has done studies of and talked to representatives from about 75 of the top 150 Fortune 500 corporations, also told the audience that Blacks find it difficult to succeed because of the lack of other Blacks in high managerial positions...
Because they often have few social relations with other corporate managers, many Blacks believe they are excluded from informal lines of communication, Cobb added...
...claimed that he pulled off a scheme to attempt to fix the scores of nine Boston College basketball games during the 1978-79 season. In a first-person account in last week's SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Henry Hill says he bribed three Boston College players, including Co-Captains Ernie Cobb and Jim Sweeney, to shave points so that Hill and his friends in the Tommy Lucchese crime family could gamble successfully against the point spread...
Sweeney and Kuhn suggested cutting Cobb in on the deal because, as the team's top scorer, he could most affect their attempts to beat the spread. In fact, of the nine games involved, three times the players were unable to deliver, and the spread held. The deal, Hill contended, was struck at meetings in various Boston hotel rooms and netted the players as much as $2,500 a game. Hill said he cleared some $100,000 in eleven weeks of placing bets on the rigged games. The players deny all of Hill's allegations of payoffs...
Serfs Up's company has fewer stand-outs than last year's, and more cohesion. For voice, I'd single out Willis Emmons' Ella Gittamette and John Stimpson's Duncan Donutt; for acting, John Sheehan's vulpine queen, Lady Fingers, and Benajah Cobb's Anna Cleavage--whose voice, however, was inaudible in several songs. But certainly the group numbers--like the worker's chorus, "Contract Diseases"--shined more than any individual performance, and the chorus singing throughout was intelligible and invigorating...