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Asked to comment on some of the men well known in baseball, he said, "Cobb and Speaker are going to have another big year. However, it is well to remember that there is an age limit to this game. Babe Ruth is in good condition this year, and should continue to be our biggest drawing card, and to hit his regular quota of home runs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Miller Huggins, Microscopic Manager of the New York Americans, Finds College Men Poor Big League Material | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...public see red, something more personal than oil is needed. Luck has it that Henderson's daughter, Lois (Brenda Bond) introduces to her potent father one Charles Parkman, boy in search of a job, also son of a onetime president of the U. S. Casually remarks cryptic-tongued Joe Cobb (Osgood Perkins), "brains" of the Martin Henderson office: "If they ever shot President Parkman's son, it wouldn't take long to get the Army into Mexico." Villainous Henderson assigns young Parkman to a "suicide" station in the oily path of his privately endowed revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Apr. 18, 1927 | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...season prognosticators, whose predictions are generally soon forgotten by all but themselves, have been especially active this spring. During no previous winter have rosters of the big teams undergone such sweeping changes in personnel. Tyrus Raymond Cobb, fiery outfielder, has joined the Philadelphia American League club, after 22 consecutive years in a Detroit uniform; Edward Trowbridge Collins, ancient, honorable second baseman, has returned to the same Philadelphia club, after an interlude of twelve years with the Chicago Americans; Rogers Hornsby, slugger, manager of 1926 World's Champion St. Louis Nationals, has gone to the New York Nationals in trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ball! | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

Mariners. In this drama by Clemence Dane, scattered episodes play around the central theme-a woman (Pauline Lord) whose love becomes insensate fury. Once a barmaid, this Lilly marries Benjie Cobb (Arthur Wontner), brilliant student. His devotion to his work as minister of a small parish preys upon her mind. Why should he stick in a mudhole? Why permit his ludicrous preaching to interfere with his attention to her? She hates his cloth, his parish, his sacrifice. The parish, in turn scorns her. For 20 years her husband has struggled to reconcile her to his life. With all the sincerity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Apr. 11, 1927 | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...Bradbury '29; Jacob Brem '27; R. L. Brittain '29 Mayer Brody '28; L. S. Bryant '29; K. M. Caper-Johnson '27; O. R. Carlson '28; Benjamin Castleman '27; F. C. Chace '27; A. C. Chase '29; A. T. Child Jr. '72; H. L. Clarke '28; H. I. Cobb 3d. '29; R. A. Colby '27; E. L. Cramer '29; J. R. Creel '27; R. G. Crevier '28; N. R. Danielian '28; Charles Danzig '29; Everett Dashoff '28; I. A. Dinerman '29; P. T. Doherty ocC; M. J. Donovan '27; Kenneth Dorn '27; J. G. Dow '27; R. E. Durkee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PUBLIC SCHOOLS' GRADUATES EXCEL | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

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