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...From which of his many investments did Tv Cobb become a multimillionaire...
Even the world's supposedly greatest metropolis has lately begun to sound like one of those boosteristic burgs that Sinclair Lewis used to deride. There was a day when New York City was so smug, haughty and complacent about its firstness that Author Irvin Cobb thought the place possessed "absolutely not a trace of local pride." Yet in the 1970s, the Big Apple, as the city now cutely calls itself, has been larding the air waves so much with a treacly, self-addressed valentine of a song ("I love New Yorrrrrrrrrrk!") that even a tone-deaf statistician might wonder...
...that stretches back to 1961. If he stays healthy, Brock will surely get his 3,000th hit this season. That accomplishment would guarantee him a place in baseball's Hall of Fame -if he had not already earned his spot another way: by stealing 921 bases, breaking Ty Cobb's career record...
...Like any American influenced by the society I live in, there's no way I'm not going to be swept away by the beauty of Harvard," Dolinsky says. And Deborah Cobb, a student from Cambridge Roxbury School, says simply, "I'd love to come to Harvard-if I'm accepted...