Word: irvin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chapin, and she held her own with col leagues like Irvin S. Cobb. But small-town journalism was in her blood. She went back to Quitman, married the Free Press's Editor Royal Daniel,* took up the fight for tolerance and decency and such progressive steps as the removal of hitching-racks from Quitman's streets...
...last week of February and the first [two weeks] of March [were] a peculiarly lethal time for American authors; five of them died. James Boyd, John Thomason, Joseph Lincoln, Irvin Cobb, Hendrik van Loon - that is the list. In the opinion of a good many competent critics, James Boyd was by far the most solidly important of them...
...Died. Irvin S. (Shewsbury) Cobb, 67, famed humorist; of dropsy; in Manhattan. Kentuckian Cobb, Paducah's favorite son, was culled from daily journalism by the Saturday Evening Post's late George Horace Lorimer, capped his career with ten years (1922-32) as a Hearst Cosmopolitan dependable. He wrote his biographical Exit Laughing in 1941, after facing Hollywood cameras in several cinecures. After his death appeared a long valedictory Cobb had written a few months before. Cobb admirers thought it had elements of a classic. Excerpts : "When convenience suits, I ask that the plain canister-nothing fancy there, please...
...Georgia's tiny Emory College, he rode through the hills on a black horse, peddling kitchen utensils from the saddlebag; at the University of Virginia Law School he janitored and waited table. His first law job was in the office of Paducah's Judge W. S. Bishop (Irvin S. Cobb's fictional Judge Priest...
...Irvin Cobb, ill (pneumonia) in Manhattan, deplored admirers who sent him regrets about his "dangerous illness" by wire (collect) or phone (charges reversed...