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Carl S. Oakman, Jr. '38 then wrapped N. Cooke in Crimson with a score of 15-12, 15-7, and 15-7. Richard Cobb '36 did the same to W. Dupont...
...sharp-nosed, sharp-tongued Columnist Westbrook Pegler last week discovered the extraordinary French magazine named Crapouillot, devoted a cabled column to telling U. S. readers about one issue of it. Unique is Crapouillot in devoting each issue to a single subject. Because it reminded him of Humphrey Cobb's best-selling novel Paths of Glory (TIME, June 3), Columnist Pegler had been attracted by the August 1934 issue, which told the appalling stories of a few of the luckless French soldiers whose Wartime deaths by execution were aimed to teach their comrades proper respect for superior officers...
...postscript to his novel Author Cobb announced that characters, units and places were fictitious. For proof "that such things happened" he referred readers to, among other sources, the issue of Crapouillot which Columnist Pegler discovered last week. Characteristically, the magazine names real characters, units, places...
Died. Frank J. Navin, 64, since 1903 president and chief stockholder of the Detroit Tigers; of a heart attack at the Detroit Riding & Hunt Club. For $700 he bought the great Tyrus Raymond Cobb in 1905; last year he paid $100,000 for Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane, manager of the team which won its first World Series last month (TIME...
...same time the following new members of the Band will be admitted. From the Class of '39: Louis Ach; Sidney R. Ballon; P. G. Black; Richard E. Brainard; Elliott Bresnick; Robert V. Burwen; H. Call; M. H. Cobb; Edward F. Gregg; Charles D. Duffy; Sheldon V. Ekman; Rowland D. Goodman; John J. Heard; Melvin L. Levin; Roger W. Loewl...