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...Diversity and democracy. This house is constantly questioning conventions which might never be questioned in another situation, however each decision to change results from thorough self-education. The house is centrally organized so you don't have to go outside to eat, unless you live at Cogg or Jordan Coops. There are lots of activities in drama, music, politics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Getting to Know Your House | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...last week managed the biggest stock sale of the year-the Ford Foundation's offering of 2,250,000 Ford Motor Co. shares. The $218 million deal went so smoothly that Ford stock actually rose a point to 984:. That taken care of, 65-year-old "Jim Cogg" returned to his office, wrote out the letter of resignation that ended his 42-year investment career, and headed off to retirement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Personal File: May 4, 1962 | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

...Envious of quick-tanning athletic types, milk-faced Cogg-Willoughby fought back at weekend parties by muttering about how easy it is for Mediterranean types to acquire a tan, managing to imply that the bronzed fellows probably had a touch of the tarbrush in their ancestry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ploy Boy | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...treatises on Lifemanship and Gamesmanship (TIME, Sept. 6, 1948), Potter developed his brilliant theories about how to be always one up on everyone through such ploys as the Canterbury Block* and Cogg-Willoughby's Anti-Suntan Gambit.† Potter's latest does not reach these heights, but there is highly useful advice on how to make cribside visitors feel like germ carriers, how to write an autobiography though nothing has ever happened in one's life, and how to devastate an author in a book review ("If you don't know what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ploy Boy | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

There may be some doubt that Stephen Potter is an O.K.-humorist, or that Pottering will become a major pastime in the U.S. Or, it may be necessary to develop some Counterpotters. Cogg-Willoughby, an experienced anti-humor player, might very well say: "Of course, what has gone out of our lives and our laughter is the fine simplicity of an Edward Lear." An American might do worse than to remark quietly but firmly: "Rather heavily on the British side, don't you think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blitzleisch v. Rotzleisch | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

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