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...millions of U.S. fans, Grantland Rice belonged as much to the golden age of sport as the heroes he wrote about-Tilden and Ruth and Dempsey, Rockne and Jones and Cobb. His phrases were memorable. Of Notre Dame's 1924 victory over Army, he wrote: "Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Apr. 11, 1955 | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...were scattered throughout the week in TV's typical buckshot fashion. Omnibus showed the staccato heartbeat of a pretty girl suddenly confronted by a spider, moments later probably scared more viewers than it enlightened with a closeup film sequence of a delicate heart operation. Medic used Lee J. Cobb to illustrate the dangers of manic depression in the case of a bachelor bank clerk. The Search, explaining that marriage produced so many problems because it was the most complex of all human relationships, blamed most failures on the lack of adequate communication between husband and wife-which left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...Waterfront. The year's best melodrama: Elia Kazan's tale of life and death among the longshoremen of New York Harbor; with Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Maiden (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Choice for 1954 | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...Waterfront. Elia Kazan's big-shouldered melodrama of dockside corruption; with Marlon Brando, Lee J. Cobb (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Dec. 13, 1954 | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...Waterfront. Elia Kazan's big-shouldered melodrama of dockside corruption; with Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Nov. 15, 1954 | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

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