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...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...
...Irvin M. Horowitz '45, of Lowell House and Elizabeth, New Jersey, has been elected to the position of Managing Editor. Horowitz was Sports Editor. The Crimson also takes pleasure in announcing the election of David G. Gill '45, of Kirkland House and Long Branch, New Jersey, to the position of Assistant Editorial Chairman...