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Humorist Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, 63, lying ill of an abused stomach in a San Francisco hospital, sat up in bed ("like a bullfrog in a pan of milk," said one reporter), and told the press: 1) "I can't say that the X-ray pictures flatter me. One of them looked like a plaster cast of Madam Perkins. I am having them retouched." 2) "Now I have to quit eating anything fit to eat, smoke nothing, drink nothing, and go to bed at 7 p. m. This is calculated to make me live at least five years longer...
...Willkie Indiana pronunciation). He also mixed in politics: debated against the Ku Klux Klan, spoke for the progressive doctrines of Bob La Follette, the elder, fought the nomination of William Gibbs McAdoo at the 1924 Democratic convention because of the Klan issue. In 1926 aristocratic Public Utilitarian Bernard Capen Cobb wrote to an officer of his Northern Ohio Power & Light: "Do not let this young man get away from us. . . . He is a comer and we should keep...
...Cobb, who had gathered together three Midwest and Southern utility holding companies, dissolved them and put their eleven big operating companies under a new holding company giant: Commonwealth & Southern, with operating units in eleven States from Michigan to Alabama. To Manhattan he summoned Wendell Willkie to be C. & S.'s attorney. When old-line Utilitycoon Cobb retired in 1933, he made Willkie president...
...committee includes L. Winfield Alberts '41, McCrae Cobb '39, Aldridge E. Hunt, Jr. '41, E. George Nadeau '40, David P. Sheppard '40, David Stiles '40, and Prescott H. Wellman...
...year everyone was fascinated by a new craze called crossword puzzles -Jack Dempsey was World's Heavyweight Champion, What Price Glory was playing on Broadway, and Ty Cobb was still in his prime - when Manager Miller Huggins of the New York Yankees, one fine day in June 1925, stepped up to a clumsy, rosy-cheeked rookie his scouts had picked up on the Columbia campus. "Gehrig," he muttered, "you take Wally Pipp's place at first base today." Last week, for the first time since that faraway day, the Yankees started a game without Lou Gehrig...