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...College." He points to the civilian defense program during the war when professors and laborers served on wardens' teams. And there is the series of annual Council University dinners, at which members of the city administration and Harvard officials, including President Conant, dine and discuss common problems. Mayor John Corcoran '18 instituted this series in 1942. There was no dinner this year because of the President's illness and absence. This liaison with Cambridge officials often carries over to city departments...
...second period, Joyce scored again. But the Big Green began to click as halfback Tom Corcoran kicked one high into the left hand corner of the goal...
...very convincing performance, but Idaho Democrats didn't have much to choose from. Glen's principal rival was D. Worth Clark, whom Glen had unseated back in 1944. Clark, who plays no musical instrument whatever, had gone into law practice with Tommy ("The Cork") Corcoran in Washington, D.C. after his defeat. He scarcely bothered to campaign, and when he did, botched it. On the eve of the election, he began a 15-minute broadcast, but after five fuzzy minutes, it was cut off without explanation. Even so, last week Clark defeated Glen Taylor, by a bare...
...Corcoran's procession began majestically with Sebastiano del Piombo's Renaissance portrait of Columbus, ended with realistic turn-of-the-century studies of New York's lower East Side. Along the way there were pictures of battles and historic meetings done in the grand style...
...even a small painting by the great French impressionist, Edgar Degas, of 19th Century Cotton Merchants. But the show's main appeal was to the ordinary American with a warm heart and a taste for a good story. It was a good bet that by the time the Corcoran closed its big cavalcade in December, Americans trooping to "see the show would break all attendance records...