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...Cobb Collected...
...COBB OF THE WORLD-Edited by John L. Heaton (his colleague)-Button ($3.50); limited edition ($10.00). *A MAN IN THE Zoo-David Garnett- Knopf ($1.75) was reviewed in TIME, June...
When Frank I. Cobb, Editor of The New York World, died last December, TIME printed excerpts from some of his most noteworthy editorials. His editorials were the kind that did not lose their flavor with their timeliness. Now they have been collected in a book, Cobb of the World.* Laurence Stallings, his assistant, told apropos of the appearance of the volume some of the facts of Cobb's last days : "The last memory I shall have of Frank Cobb was on the day following Harding's death. He was propped...
...performed this transmorphosis is extremely modest. Irvin S. Cobb, famed humorist, described him by saying: "He likes double- breasted sack coats, large brunette cigars, his friends, chocolate bonbons, his family, the Grand Canyon, two cups of coffee for breakfast, and rhododendrons on his front lawn...
...Tyrus R. Cobb, Manager of the Detroit American League baseball team: "Figures compiled by a baseball statistician show that I, during my lifetime in the American League, have played in 2,449 games and have had a batting average of .370. There followed games and batting averages of other leading players now in the American League: Sisler, St. Louis 1047 .361 Speaker, Cleveland 2182 .348 Ruth, New York 945 .347 Collins, Chicago 2310 .331 Heilman, Detroit...