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When Shakespeare plays television, he usually loses. A line here, a scene there, disappears under the chopper as all that spirit is crammed onto the 21-inch screen. The total effect, too frequently, is bottled bard. But this week NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame pulled out the cork, took a full setting and two hours for an excellent, virtually uncut production of Macbeth...
...retains other advantages: he does not fake, he does not invade bedrooms or invite others into his own; he is an artist of the public event. Powell seems to be giving an account of events that are still current, of living while he writes-unlike Proust in his cork-lined room, who evoked things past in order to live again when life itself was done and over with. Powell has not yet created one of the mountains of literature, but his molehills, for those with the leisure to watch, can be quite as interesting as the moles are when they...
...more than a month, charges of influence peddling have swirled around Thomas G. ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran's visits and phone calls to Federal Power commissioners in behalf of his high-paying ($5,000 per month) client, Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. Last week the cocky Cork arrived for his long-awaited performance before the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight. Although he has gained weight and his hair has silvered, Tommy, now 59, showed that he has lost none of the brashness and slickness that made him a leading figure in Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal brain trust...
Influence peddling in Washington is an art both subtle and circuitous. So the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight learned last week as it dug for details of private talks between members of the Federal Power Commission and Thomas G. ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, onetime New Dealer-Wheeler turned wheedler for the Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. (TIME, April 4). What started with curiosity about Corcoran turned into a full-scale investigation of off-the-record contacts between FPC commissioners and utility company representatives. The results made for headlines but were instructive nonetheless...
...Midwestern Transmission case, Corcoran called on Kline as well as Kuykendall. Kline originally favored the examiner's recommendation of a 6^% return for the company, but several days after Tommy the Cork's call, Kline agreed to go along with the rest of the commission in postponing a decision on the rate of return. Testified Kline: "Corcoran's visit had no influence whatsoever on my decision...