Word: corrigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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EUGENE F. CORRIGAN...
...thing you; you beast . . .!" screamed redheaded Mrs. Reseda Corrigan as she put the finger on suave, unrumpled Sigmund Engel, 73, in a Chicago police station. Engel, she charged, had charmed her out of $8,700. That, Engel modestly admitted, was nothing. In 50 years of polished wooing, he figured he had extracted "millions-maybe $5 or $6 million" from gullible women. Police couldn't begin to list all the women he had taken to wife, but back in 1927, the dossier showed more than 40 marriages. Finally caught up, Confidence Man Engel was willing to reveal a few professional...
Added Injury. In Pasadena, Thomas S. Cabo, pinned under his car when it rolled back on him, was taken to the hospital, where Policeman James E. Corrigan served him with one ticket for illegal parking, another for having failed to set his brakes...
...family took the body home, held a wake and a $996 funeral, including $15 for a ringing ministerial eulogy. Last week the family had cause to regret its lavishness. The sons & daughters had started getting cards signed "Dad" from Corrigan's Lumber Camp, Upson, Wis. Startled, two sons got in their car, drove to Upson, found August comfortably curled up on a logging-camp bunk...
...gripped by World Series fever. It was pretty hard for anybody to get any work done. Almost every office had a radio going; in New York and Philadelphia, taverns with television did a Klondike business. And many of those who saw the games, like William J. Corrigan of Louisville, seemed to think there was nothing more important in the world...