Word: cobbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ablest baseballers who ever lived, famed Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb is now one of the world's richest retired athletes. His fortune consists mostly of fat Coca-Cola holdings which he bought long ago on advice from his hunting crony, Coca-Cola's President Bob Woodruff. When he quit professional baseball in 1928, Cobb toured Europe with his wife and four of their five children, went to Scotland for a season's shooting, returned to his 10,000-acre farm in his native Georgia. Five years ago, he bought a house at Atherton, Calif., 30 miles south...
...Colin MacLaurin '38, Orville H. Emmons ocC., Sidney Cobb '38, and David S. Stacey '40, have been elected president, vice-president, treasurer, and secretary respectively of the Mountaineering Club...
Hudson Delange will provide the swing at the Spring Dance at Winthrop House on Thursday, May 20. The affair will be strictly limited to 50 couples, with prices set at $3 per couple and $1.50 stag. On the dance committee are McRae H. Cobb '39, chairman, Eric T. Clarke '38, John M. Cunningham '38, and Theodore P. Robie...
...finest publicity of her career, that Generalissimo Franco had no designs on her. On other film figures, however, he frowned angrily last week, banned from White Spanish territory all films to which the following "radicals" have contributed: writers Upton Sinclair, Clifford Odets, Liam O'Flaherty, Dudley Nichols, Humphrey Cobb; screen stars Paul Muni and Luise Rainer; directors Lewis Milestone and Frank Tuttle; producer Kenneth Mac-Gowan. In reply last week, 98 U. S. writers signed a manifesto against General Franco. Declared they: "We cannot keep silent when war becomes a slaughter of the unarmed, the innocent and the helpless...
Among the Freshman, Vin Freedley defeated M. Lopez 3-1; Kim Canavarro overcame S. Robinson 3-2; Jim Ronsmaniere beat W. Cobb; Bill Wood set back C. Worthen 3-1, and Charles Whiting lost to A. Richardson...