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Later that month the City Manager John H. Corcoran appointed Paul J. Liacos, Boston University Professor of Law, as his Special Assistant in order to conduct an investigation of the events concerning the Largey arrest and death...
...surprisingly, the new league has introduced a mini-galaxy of new stars. Bell Quarterback Jim ("King") Corcoran, a castoff from five N.F.L. teams, has finally found a home in Philadelphia with his shrewd passing game. In Birmingham, Matthew Reed, a black quarterback from Grambling, replaced the injured George Mira for two games and coolly led the undefeated Americans to late fourth-quarter wins...
...promises were kept, and James Leo Sullivan, city manager of Lowell and former Cambridge chief executive, returned to Cambridge to replace retiring John H. Corcoran--but not without more accusations. The Independent-liberal coalition had agreed to up Corcoran's salary to increase his pension--a move that the wronged Danehy termed "the most brazenly political act ever taken in this city," implying that it was a political move to get Corcoran to leave office without putting up a fight. The coalition maintained that it was simply bringing the salary up to the equivalent of other city managers in Massachusetts...
...great legal and corporate offices of Washington came figures from the past, some in big black limousines that told of their huge financial success since leaving the Government decades ago. Others shuffled through the rain with umbrellas raised high. Jim Rowe and Paul Porter were New Dealers. Thomas Corcoran, when he was not redesigning the Government 40 years ago, used to play the accordion for Franklin Roosevelt out at Joe Kennedy's place. Robert McNamara, John Kennedy's and Lyndon Johnson's Secretary of Defense, attended, and so did Mrs. Dean Acheson, the widow of Harry Truman...
...foot and Harvard insists it will not pay according to any set formula. That basic difference in philosophy could lead to another round of heated negotiations and increased pressure from city politicos and residents who see at least some tax relief coming through higher payments made by Harvard.JOHN H. CORCORAN...