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...Lacrosse Club's Tom Corcoran, who scored three goals during the afternoon though he was closed guarded, put the winners ahead with a long shot into the Crimson nets midway through the first quarter...
Dick Pille sent the home team ahead for the only time in the game when, later in the sane quarter, he scored with two Crimson players off the field on penalties. The Lacrosse Club attack was becoming gradually more organized, however, and it retaliated with three goals--two by Corcoran and one by Albie Wells--in the space of one minute...
...pure abstractionists" whose work was accepted for exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, I am deeply honored to be included in Cartoonist Al Capp's "small group of the unbalanced," etc., which has given him so much pain [Feb. 18]. In the loneliness of my basement studio I am eternally grateful that I have never degraded my talent or my conscience nor sold my soul-for a bowl of mud-mushrooms...
Billing himself as "An Evening of Culture at the Corcoran," chain-smoking Cartoonist Al (Li'l Abner) Capp strolled into the Washington museum, ripped joyfully into modern art while his listeners choked, fretted and guffawed nervously. Capp's special quarrel was with the pure abstractionists-"that small group of the unbalanced who sell shameless products through a larger group of avaricious and unprincipled to an enormous group of the totally dazed." Aren't the abstractionists' products good for anything? Sneered (Ugh!) Critic Capp later: "They'd make good neckties for Elks' conventions...
Cleveland's Dr. Arthur C. Corcoran checked stroke victims' blood pressure, found that abnormally high pressure predisposes a person to strokes, especially of the hemorrhagic type. In such cases it would be dangerous to use anticoagulant drugs (because of the risk of further hemorrhage); the Cleveland Clinic researchers have found that they could lower the blood pressure with hypotensive drugs, arid later use anticoagulants safely to minimize the risk of subsequent strokes...