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Getting up-to-date puts a strain on that slightly oldfangled institution, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, and the strain shows like a taut cable in its 28th Biennial Exhibition. The manner of hanging the show is selfconscious: all the stripes in one room, all the figures in another, all the old auto parts and welded scrap metal in a third. The 145 paintings, chosen from among more than 4,000 submitted as colored slides, display a comic propensity for dated titles: November 25th, July III, 23 September 1959, July 20, '61, Between March and April. Even...
Died. William Warwick Corcoran, 78, an adventurous Washington. D.C. socialite who squandered his inheritance by the age of 30, joined the French Foreign Legion in 1916 and the U.S. Foreign Service in 1920, where later, as a wartime consul in neutral Sweden, he earned the U.S.'s highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom, for personal espionage that pinpointed Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket bases at Peenemünde; of a heart attack; in San Diego's U.S. Naval Hospital...
Collectively, they were nicknamed "happy hot dogs," and their numbers included Dean Acheson, Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, James...
...transferred to film. This time Fred MacMurray and Jane Wyman, an ever-lovin' couple from Terre Haute, Ind., are off to France with their three typical kids: a sweet plump daughter (Deborah Walley) with steely morals, an engagingly nutty teen-age son (Tommy Kirk), and another boy (Kevin Corcoran), 12, whose freckled wit comes forth in lines like ''I know who Napoleon was. He was the guy that had the same trouble with the English that Custer had with the Indians...
...James I. Corcoran '63 won the annual essay contest of Current, the Harvard Radcliffe Catholic Club quarterly, for the article "Religious Liberty for all." David Littlejohn won the graduate competition, with the essay "The Banning of Books...