Word: cobina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little thing like a continent come between them. She writes Bill every day and has little long-distance chats with him almost as often. Cost of one recent call: $145. At first they vowed to have no other dates, but Elizabeth felt like such a wallflower at one of Cobina Wright's parties she had that rule made a little more flexible...
...COBINA WRIGHT SR. Beverly Hills, Calif...
...honeymoon columns last week, Bootsie welcomed another newcomer to the Hearst fold. Cobina Wright Sr., veteran Hollywood hostess, had signed up with The Chief to do a column about what she knows best-celebrities. It started last week (without a byline for the first few days) in the Los Angeles Herald & Express, and is ghostwritten by bespectacled Charles Gentry, onetime drama critic for Hearst's Detroit Times. "I'll write about, famous people, both inside and outside the U.S.," Cobina told a reporter. "After all, my dear, I've known just about everyone...
...woman's angle" was covered with grim intensity. Because Hollywood's Cobina Wright Sr. was an old pal of the groom, Cobina got an invitation to the wedding-the only one on his list to a private U.S. citizen. She coolly capitalized on it by signing up with Hearst's International News Service. I.N.S. hardly got its money's worth. At a Palace reception, she was so overwhelmed by all that jewelry "that I can scarcely remember so much as the color or cut of a single gown...
...pours this boiling vitality into office work, as lavishly over minor details as major crises. All of each evening, until a normal 3 a.m., she keeps right on working-at parties. The only thing that can keep her away from a party given by Elsa Maxwell, Lady Mendl or Cobina Wright Sr. or Barbara Hutton Grant or Ouida Rathbone or Baron Rothschild is an earthquake, a flood, or possibly a runny nose. Her conversation is slick, spangled, witty, shot full of Colbyisms. Some of these are close to schoolgirlish, like "doll," meaning darling, for a man she likes; others...