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Wrote Hearst Society Columnist Cobina Wright who was born on an Oregon ranch: "It seems to me that there is a great deal of unnecessary and adverse comment being made by columnists about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Postscripts & Afterthoughts | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Big Dig | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...COBINA WRIGHT SR. Beverly Hills, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: These Charming People | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Sweetest Story . . . | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

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