I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

D. Cobb was honored in 1915 with the march "The War Correspondent" by G. Cobb's granddaughter was Buff Cobb a TV personality of the early 1950s and second wife of journalist Mike Wallace.

Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (June 23 1876 – March 11 1944) was an American author humorist and columnist who lived in New York and authored more than 60 books and 300 short stories.