Word: corcorans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that comes in at the White House to do some work and plays not only the piano but the accordion and the guitar . . .? Could it be Tommy Corcoran, White House Tommy, as they call him in Washington . . .? If this deduction be correct, it is proposed that next time after the gentleman who plays the piano has come in to do some work, the billing for the fireside chat be changed to read as follows: 'Thomas Corcoran will address his subjects on the state of the nation tonight through the courtesy of the broadcasting companies and the President...
They are James P. Kranz Jr., of Nashville, Tennessee, chairman; Charles B. Arendall Jr., Mobile, Alabama; Benjamin C. Chester, Central Falls, Rhode Island; John Corcoran, Pittsburgh; Robert C. Creel, Cambridge; John H. Ferguson, Oklahoma City; Paul Fitting, Nutley, New Jersey; Samuel Gordon, Brooklyn, New York; William P. Gray, Glendale, California; Willard P. Henkelman, Seranton, Pennsylvania; Samuel L. Jashnoff, Far Rockaway, Long Island; Hugh R. Jones, New Hartford, New York; Thomas W. Keesee Jr. Helena, Arkansas; William W. Kirkpatrick, Chappaqua, New York, William H. Pock Jr., Glen Ridge, New Jersey, John O. Rhome, West Allenhurst, New Jersey; and Harold A. Unterberg...
...William Corcoran NIGHT AT HOGWALLOW- Theodore Strauss One of the scarcest forms of U. S. literature, the novelette until recently has been catalogued by U. S. publishers as a fiction, freak. To support this view, publishers could name on the fingers of one hand such lonely little albinos as Edith Wharton's Ethan Frame, Willa Gather's A Lost Lady, Christopher Morley's Where the Blue Begins. But since the appearance of such big white-headed boys as Anthony Adverse and Gone With The Wind, short novels have also climbed aboard best-seller lists (The Postman Always...
Representing the contemporary U. S. scene are William Corcoran's This Man, Joe Murray and Theodore Strauss's Night at Hogwallow. Both books and authors have working-class backgrounds. Tough, popular, sentimental hero of This Man, Joe Murray falls hard for a beautiful, chaste Polish girl, blames himself when she is run over by a train. Marrying without love, he exorcises the dead girl's memory, realizes his wife's worth only after a too jauntily told, bitter period of Unemployment and bumming. Night at Hogwallow is a bloodcurdling first work 'aid in the deep...
Below is the roster of Freshman football players who reported last week: NAMEAge Wt, Ht. Prep. School Town ENDS Butler, George P 18 153 5.11 Romford Mt. Kisco, N. Y. Corcoran, William J. 17 180 6. Cambridge High Cambridge Coughlan, Joseph J. 17 140 6.1 Cambridge Latin Cambridge Dodge, Henry W. 20 150 6. Exeter Omaha, Neb. Glidden, John C. 19 170 5.11 Exeter Englewood, N. J. Haydock, George G. 18 175 6.2 Milton Hewlett, N. Y. Herter, Christian A. Jr. 18 190 6.5 St. Paul's Boston Hinton, William H. 18 168 6.2 Putney School Putney, Vt. Hurley, Morris...