Word: corks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PEDDLING OF INFLUENCE by Thomas G. ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, 60, onetime New Dealer turned wheedler for Tennessee Gas Transmission Co., was not out of line, ruled congressional committee, after investigating Corcoran's private pleas to FPC commissioners to grant a Tennessee subsidiary a higher return in a rate case (TIME, May 23). Committee's Republican minority dissented, called the findings "the most shocking political whitewash in years...
...Dublin last week the Borden Co. announced that it has chosen a site in County Cork in the heart of Ireland's dairy country to build the biggest dry-milk plant it has ever constructed outside the U.S. The new plant, scheduled for completion next May, will cost $2,240,000, employ 50, and produce about 9,000,000 lbs. of dry whole-milk powder a year, chiefly for export to South America...
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...