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Irvin S. Cobb
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Hosted the Academy Awards in 1935
Began as a reporter for the Paducah Daily News at the age of seventeen, becoming the nation's youngest managing news editor two years later.
Wrote 60 books and some 300 short stories.
American humorist. who started a writing career after being forced to quit school due to his father's alcohol addiction.
Father of
Elisabeth Cobb
.
Grandfather of
Buff Cobb
.
Novelist and dramatist who acted in occasional US films of both silent and sound eras.
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