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...some vigorous pre-game cheers, but five minutes later they had subsided to a morbid despondency . . . . after the first quarter the cheering volumes gradually switched, with the sound of Brekekekek attaining attaining eventual superiority . . . the goalposts went swiftly and cleanly--not with a whimper but with a bang . . . Richard Corcoran '46 was dangerous with his heels as he hung from the north bars...
Personable "Mike" Straight went to school at his mother's vast Dartington Hall experimental colony in England, got an economics degree at Cambridge, returned to the U.S. to work as a State Department economist. He later helped Tom Corcoran and Ben Cohen ghostwrite New Deal speeches, reported off & on for the New Republic, worked up to be the family corporation's watchdog on the staff...
...Morton Corcoran Eustis...
...older, big, burly "N.C." concentrated on painting with studied care everyday landscapes and people. They sold well; one of them last year was voted best-in-the-show by gallery-goers at Washington's biennial Corcoran show. In October, Wyeth and a grandson, riding in a station wagon, were struck and killed by a train...
Late Abed. Franklin Roosevelt had used party whips and liaison men like Tommy Corcoran to put White House heat on the legislators. Harry Truman was the first President to turn his top policy men openly to such a task. He gave notice that he wanted action-reports, at once, on the status of the work assigned. Moreover, he wanted no shirking; he ordered twice-a-month progress reports...