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...education by absorption there," he says. On his days off, he walked around New York studying such wonders as Fifth Avenue, Wall Street and the Woolworth Building. While still working for McKim, Mead & White, he got himself enrolled in the atelier of a top architect, Harvey Wiley Corbett, where in the evenings he drew, drew and redrew, while Corbett passed from desk to desk, criticizing and encouraging...
EDWARD P. J. CORBETT Chicago...
When Amos Alonzo Stagg first started to coach football at the University of Chicago, not one of the school's buildings had been finished. Jim Corbett had just won the heavyweight championship from John L. Sullivan; Knute Rockne was a four-year-old youngster in Norway; and it was eight years before the founding of baseball's American League. At Chicago only 13 men turned up for football practice, so Coach Stagg, a Walter Camp All-America end at Yale (class of '88), joined the fun and played on the team himself...
...first floor balcony of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, six mannequins pose in costumes one might expect to see either at the Mardi Gras or on the Tom Corbett Space Cadet television program. One of the dummies sports a mask composed of a Chinese red semi-sphere and what looks like one half of a stone arrowhead with a black eye hole in the center. One of his arms is a lance, surrounded by a bell-like guard. The other arm, wearing skin-tight silk encased in a gourd shaped sheath, holds a golden club. The remaining five costumes, all designed...
Contino likes to tell how his father came to the U.S. from Sicily and set up as a butcher in Fresno. (At this point, he usually produces papa, and papa sings in Italian.) His mother's brother, christened Raffaele Giordano but better known as Young Corbett III, onetime world welterweight champ (1933), thought young Dick would make a good fighter; he has big hands. But from twelve on, Dick has wanted to sing and play the accordion...