Word: cobina
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...April Fools' gag a fellow pulled in Washington. He walked into the White House and said he was from Missouri, and before he could holler 'April fool!' he was a Cabinet member." By that time, Hope and his sidekicks-popeyed, siren-throated Jerry Colonna, Brenda and Cobina, and Bandleader Skinnay Ennis-had turned Tuesday into Bob Hope night in the U.S. Every Wednesday morning in those days, the Dow-Jones stock ticker used to carry the best of his jokes. During his ten years as toothpaste salesman, he claims, Pepsodent leapfrogged from No. 6 in sales...
...glossy, three-color quarterly, like the Atlantian at the U.S. penitentiary in Atlanta. Their circulation can be impressive: the biweekly press run of the San Quentin News is 10,000 copies, 1,481 of which go by mail to paid subscribers, including Actor Jack Palance and Society Columnist Cobina Wright (no alumni). Inside the walls they are consumed with the avidity of men who have nothing but time on their hands. "The Atlantian must be well received," says Associate Warden Virgil Breland at Atlanta. "We don't find the commodes jammed up with torn copies...
...designed strictly for housewives who want something to laugh at over their vacuum cleaners before tuning in the soap operas. Hope handles the job in snappy style (before a live audience of ladies), dots the radio program with interviews and a weekly "guest lady editor," e.g., Zsa Zsa Gabor, Cobina Wright...
Since that time, Cobina Sr. has aired the linen of high society in a column for the Hearstpapers. She has also given much of her time to pondering such questions as "After materialism, what?" and to deciding what, after all, life adds up to. She finds that she agrees pretty much with English Writer Thomas Burke (1886-1945), when he said, "All living is hunger, without hunger we perish...
...Which George Bernard Shaw advanced, years before Cobina did, in the dictum: "Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children." * Who died last month (TIME, Feb. 4). Cobina was the second of his five wives...