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Died. Humphrey Cobb, 44, author of 1935's best-selling war story (Paths of Glory); of coronary thrombosis; in Port Washington, L.I. His best-seller was his only published novel, and was written out of boredom with his Manhattan advertising job. A terse, heart-rending account of a sadistic French general who ordered his own men decimated after a hopeless attack had failed, it was adapted for the stage, got him a $1,000-a-week job in Hollywood. That also bored him, and at his death he was working for a Manhattan advertising agency...
...last week of February and the first [two weeks] of March [were] a peculiarly lethal time for American authors; five of them died. James Boyd, John Thomason, Joseph Lincoln, Irvin Cobb, Hendrik van Loon - that is the list. In the opinion of a good many competent critics, James Boyd was by far the most solidly important of them...
Died. Irvin S. (Shewsbury) Cobb, 67, famed humorist; of dropsy; in Manhattan. Kentuckian Cobb, Paducah's favorite son, was culled from daily journalism by the Saturday Evening Post's late George Horace Lorimer, capped his career with ten years (1922-32) as a Hearst Cosmopolitan dependable. He wrote his biographical Exit Laughing in 1941, after facing Hollywood cameras in several cinecures. After his death appeared a long valedictory Cobb had written a few months before. Cobb admirers thought it had elements of a classic. Excerpts : "When convenience suits, I ask that the plain canister-nothing fancy there, please...
...tiny Emory College, he rode through the hills on a black horse, peddling kitchen utensils from the saddlebag; at the University of Virginia Law School he janitored and waited table. His first law job was in the office of Paducah's Judge W. S. Bishop (Irvin S. Cobb's fictional Judge Priest...
...Irvin Cobb, ill (pneumonia) in Manhattan, deplored admirers who sent him regrets about his "dangerous illness" by wire (collect) or phone (charges reversed...