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MAURICE BRAZIL PRENDERGAST was 64 years old and already on his deathbed when he learned one day in 1923 that Washington, D.C.'s Corcoran Gallery had given its Bronze Medal to one of his paintings. It was just about the only prize that had ever come his way, and the old man could not help being amused. "Well," he said, "I am glad they've found out I'm not crazy, anyhow." For today's gallerygoer the wonder is more likely to be that so gentle and genteel a painter (see color) could ever have been...
...minded not to want to limber up the D'Oyly Carte tradition wherever stiff joints masquerade as style; but he is too English and too understanding of G. & S. to want to undermine what they did. The sudden gay way in which he has the crew lift Captain Corcoran off one side of the deck and deposit him on the other admirably indicates the kind of general lift he has given Pinafore...
...what it must do. The Second New Deal characteristically told business what it must not do." Big Brother was replaced by Dutch Uncle. Social evangelists of centralized planning, e.g., Rexford Guy Tugwell, gave way to the legal bird dogs of reform recruited mostly from Harvard Law School by Tommy Corcoran and Benjamin Cohen. As Schlesinger sees it, the heady momentum of social experimentation had been lost, Roosevelt temporarily wallowed in "a stew of indecision." and a narrow Supreme Court majority stood poised to strike down NRA, AAA and a host of other government alphabetical agencies...
Fender Sir: Regarding your May 30 picture of Attorney Tom Corcoran, I wish to call attention to the curious caption, "With the brass behind." Did Lawyer Corcoran develop his "brass behind" to fend off anti-Roosevelt Republicans, or what? No doubt, a guard against terrible chewings...
...Corcoran said that he discussed only "procedural" and not the rate aspects or "merits" of the case with the commissioners, even though it would have been proper under the law. He claimed that he mentioned the 7% return only once with FPC Chairman Jerome Kuykendall. Explained Corcoran: "I told Mr. Kuykendall, 'Mr. Symonds still wants the 7%, but if you will look at the procedural suggestion made in the closing argument, maybe it won't be necessary to face that problem now.' " The suggestion was for FPC to grant the permit, fix the rate later. That...