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Engaged. Miss Elizabeth Cobb, daughter of Irvin S. Cobb, to Frank Michler Chapman, Jr., Princeton Senior. Lately she has been doing editorial work on the staff of The Bookman...
...Irvin S. Cobb, who places his high-priced humor at the disposal of the suitings business...
...Irvin S. Cobb, whose side-splitting after-dinner stories have for over a year helped to carry the advertising in some hundreds of newspapers, has apparently made an even more lucrative strike. He is writing advertisements signed by himself. Notable this week was his full-page panegyric of " Jack Tar Togs " in the Saturday Evening Post...
...winking his eye. Stephen Leacock's popularity has lasted longer than most. From Literary Lapses to My Discovery of England his books have been funny with a certain consistency. Canadian by birth, professor of political economy by profession, a raconteur who has only one equal in my experience [Irvin Cobb], he is a solid, jolly, gloom- defying gentleman. Ruddy of countenance, with hair slightly graying and usually rumpled, a bristly mustache, large shoulders and a stocky trunk, he talks positively and punctuates his conversation with loud and infectious laughter...
STICKFULS, THE COMPOSITIONS OF A NEWSPAPER MINION?Irvin S. Cobb ?Doran ($2.00). Aside from being one of the most characteristic and uproarious of American humorists, Mr. Cobb has been an eminently successful newspaper man. In this account of journalistic adventure he takes pains to upset a few cherished fallacies regarding life in the city room...