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...House hearing on influence peddling in Washington, an old Washington figure bobbed up last week in a somewhat new role. His name: Thomas G. ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, lawyer and onetime brain-truster who had drafted much of the New Deal legislation during the '305. Federal Power Commissioner Jerome K. Kuykendall testified at the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee hearing that a gas-company representative (later identified as Tommy the Cork) had tried to influence him in a case involving the Midwestern Gas Transmission Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of the giant Tennessee Gas Transmission...
Higher Rates. After the FPC examining staff had recommended a 6¼% return, Corcoran phoned Kuykendall, although the Cork was not listed as the Midwestern attorney for the case, and pleaded for the higher rate. The committee wondered: Why didn't Kuykendall hang up on him? Answered Kuykendall, a Republican appointed by Ike: "By the time I knew what he was talking about, he had said it. I didn't talk to him. He talked to me. How could I prevent...
...Corcoran also got in touch with two other FPC commissioners, later called on Kuykendall in his office to make another plea for the rate. The pipeline was approved, but the rate was not set because, explained Kuykendall, the FPC was waiting until all the expenses of building it were in. Kuykendall insisted that there was nothing to hide about the affair, said that he had informed the committee of the calls himself, although not until the story had been printed in a trade journal...
...Corcoran, 28-year-old graduate of the Harvard Business School, who was seeded 24th, exceeded all expectation by finishing fourth...
Rosenberg's latest museum exhibition at Washington's Corcoran Gallery last week once again proved his own happy confession: "I have never been able to lock the world out of my studio." Rosenberg avoids flashy technique and fashionable abstraction. Instead, he paints loose, free and colorful impressions of the things he loves: flowers, fields, streams and especially the Adirondack Mountains...