Word: cobbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three for Cooperstown" [TIME, Feb.1], you mention that Bill Terry holds the fourth highest batting average in modern baseball [after Hornsby, Heilmann, and Ruth]. Just how does Ty Cobb forfeit his modern-day baseball slot...
Baseball's famed Georgia Peach, Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb, 66, whose own education ended with high school, announced that he will set up a fund big enough to help three or four bright, needy Georgia students through colleges and universities each year. The scholarships will be "definitely not athletic." Said Ty: "I missed something in life . . . I can get awfully sentimental about something like this. I can cry, too. It runs in my family...
...Love Is a Bridge, showing the barriers of pride, frustration, and selfishness which isolate one person from another. Separating each individual, Mr. Flood seems to say, there is a natural gap which only the warmth and understanding of love can bridge. Spanning twenty-five years, the novel finds Henry Cobb at Harvard in 1927 and follows him through the wrecks of two marriages. The first, to Susan, collapses because their love is not mature enough to bridge two islands of pride. The second, to Alice, founders because they are drawn together only by loneliness, with longings too disparate...
Died. Jesse C. Burkett, 84, Hall of Fame baseball star, and one of three players (the others: Rogers Hornsby, Ty Cobb) ever to bat over .400 in two consecutive seasons (with Cleveland, 1895-96); in Worcester, Mass...
...Cobb pointed out, however, that at the end of the academic year the Lubells' records will be examined to see if they should be drafted. This is merely the periodic examination which is normal procedure for all student deferments...