Word: corbin
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...JAMES CORBIN...
...also magic to one Paul Corbin, a Wisconsinite who climbed on the Kennedy bandwagon in 1960, worked in the Wisconsin and West Virginia primaries, and was rewarded by Bobby with a job on the Democratic National Committee staff. Corbin was supposed to screen prospective Democratic job applicants, but his interviews often turned out to be diatribes. "Where were you," he would cry, "when we were fighting in West Virginia?" He was, first of all, a Bobby partisan. Once, when asked about his political future, Corbin said that he planned to "stay in Washington for 16 years, eight years with Jack...
When he heard of the New Hampshire write-in campaign for Bobby, Corbin promptly got on the phone and began promoting it, freely using the phrase, "Bobby says . . ." On news of Corbin's activities, Johnson started burning. He called Bobby, said he deemed it "inadvisable" for Corbin to stay on at the National Committee under the circumstances. The word was passed from the White House that Corbin should be fired, and National Committee Chairman John Bailey was only too happy to oblige...
Boars on Horseback. Preserves are nothing new. New Hampshire's 25,000-acre Blue Mountain Forest Inc. was stocked in 1890 with deer, antelope, moose, elk, caribou, and Himalayan mountain goats. Railroad Magnate Austin Corbin chased boars there on horse back with javelins. Today, there are nearly 2,000 preserves in the U.S.-most of them open to anybody with a box of shells and a handful of greenbacks. Some are nothing more than dusty, played-out farms, stocked with a few pheasants and partridges. Others cater to the whims of an affluent society...
E.P.E. is a Baltimore-based operation run by Corbin Gwaltney, 41, former editor of the Johns Hopkins Magazine, who in 1950 began turning that once stodgy journal into a model of lively thought. Gwaltney had begun to fret that most alumni magazines were too parochial to cover the main story that serious college graduates care about when they cast their minds back to school: higher education's trends, troubles and triumphs. His solution: informative inserts to tap the vast readership of all alumni magazines combined...