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From his 180-year-old house high on a bluff in Lyme Regis, Dorset, John Fowles can look down to a curving stone jetty called the Cobb. Two years ago, he had a vision of a woman in a long Victorian skirt standing there with her back to him. It was the basis for the opening scene of The French Lieutenant's Woman and, says Fowles, "the tiny seed from which the whole book started. It was just an image that came to me in a "hypnagogic state between 'waking and sleeping...
Banks last week charged government bond dealers as much as 10% a year for loans to finance their holdings of securities. Interest rates on tax-exempt local bonds reached new peaks. Cobb County, Ga., for example, paid 6.49% interest to float an issue. A block of Government-guaranteed local public-housing bonds was offered to investors at a record annual yield of 5.55%. For a person in the 50% federal income-tax bracket, that is the equivalent of an 11% return before taxes on ordinary stocks or bonds...
Conceived as a classic western about the pursuit of one of those bitch goddesses, Mackenna's Gold is manned by an honor roll of movie stars of the '40s: Lee J. Cobb, Raymond Massev, Eduardo Ciannelli, Burgess Meredith, Edward G. Robinson, Keenan Wynn. Together they pick the hambone clean in a search for the usual lost gold cache -before they get wiped out in the customary massacre. Left over are a Mexican villain (Omar Sharif), leathery Marshal Mackenna (Gregory Peck), one surly, burly Apache and two obligatory ladies. The blonde (Camilla Sparv), supposedly Arizona-born and bred, speaks...
KING LEAR is the best work that the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater Las ever offered. Lee J. Cobb, aided by a supporting cast that truly supports, gives the best performance of his career in the title role...
Flapping Galoshes. Lorimer made fiction king, and fiction writers princes. There was something close to divine right in Irvin S. Cobb's tone when he remarked, "The uncanny soundness of its literary judgment is demonstrated firstly by the fact that more people on this planet read the magazine and like it than any other magazine. And secondly by the fact that it buys nearly everything I write." F. Scott Fitzgerald walked the Post's cork-floored editorial corridors, his galoshes flapping, selling the short stories that kept him living high between books...