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Freund's companion. Thomas g. Corcoran, told Holmes that he was "the primal flame to which we come to light our torches." The justice replied. "There may once have been a little spark, but now all is ashes." Freund remembered a "deathly silence" falling afterwards...
After the ceremony broke up, the previously unidentified men came out from behind their cloak of gray flannel. Of the ten surviving Holmes clerks, seven had made it to the ceremony: Chauncey Belknap, Thomas G. Corcoran, Lawrence Curtis, H. Chapman Rose, Robert W. Wales, and Alger Hiss and his brother Donald...
...Americans who lack basic food and shelter even now do so mostly from ignorance and mismanagement of the benefits available to them. Those around Washington who remember the bonus marchers of 1932 recall them as actually on a "hunger march." The men were destitute. Attorney Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran watched General Douglas MacArthur and his aide Dwight Eisenhower ride off to disperse this pitiful army on the Anacostia flats. New Dealer Abe Fortas came down as a kid lawyer out of Yale in the summer of 1933. He arrived in the Department of Agriculture with his suitcase...
Yale's Marty Schwartz decisioned 158-pound Jim Corcoran, while Jim McEwan cradled a disbelieving Bruce Johnson at 167 for three more Eli points...
...first of Harvard's scoring came at 158 as freshman Jim Corcoran over powered Danny Yee, 4-2. The effort did not carry over, however, as first-team all-Ivy Jamie Fee of Columbia defeated Harvard's second-team all-Ivy Bruce Johnson...