Word: cobina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...After Materialism, What?" Cobina called on her courage-"always," she admits, "immense"-and went back to work, first as the proprietor of a supper club that failed, later as a nightclub singer at $500 a week. When daughter Cobina was 16, mother stood her in the public gaze, named her "Jr.," tacked "Sr." to her own name and retired to the wings. She coached the young beauty into a quick, bright career as the Glamour Girl of 1939, but all ended in confusion when Cobina Jr. threw up her Hollywood contracts and married wealthy young Palmer Beaudette...
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...