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...city's bustling financial district. Suspense mounted until the noth bid was made. Then, while little groups huddled together to see if they should raise their bids, the gavel banged down decisively. The winners, with a top bid of $2,480,000: two Texas millionaires, Leo Francis Corrigan, a real estate wheeler-dealer, and Toddie Lee Wynne, whose pile comes from oil and real estate. Said Corrigan triumphantly: "The others had to spend so much time in conference that they lost out. We had complete authorization right with...
Complete authorization means that Leo Corrigan, who flew to Hong Kong to oversee the bidding, is his own boss. He has built up a real estate empire worth more than $500 million by buying up choice pieces of real estate and holding on to them. Corrigan still owns all but four of the 180 major real estate purchases he has made. He rarely takes on partners (Wynne is an old friend), will take complete charge of the Hong Kong property, give Wynne half the profits...
...Glass Roof. On the property, site of the old Hong Kong parade ground, Corrigan and Wynne plan to build a luxurious, $12 million, 25-story hotel to take advantage of Hong Kong's drastic shortage of hotel space. The hotel will have 1,040 air-conditioned rooms, elevators and escalators, a shopping center and bazaar, a permanent exhibition hall, and an all-glass roof under which diners and dancers can gaze out upon one of the world's loveliest bays. The Texas partners hope to get back their investment in three to five years...
...July day in 1938, thumbing through a pile of story clips, City Editor Harry F. Reutlinger of Hearst's Chicago evening American turned up an item reporting that a missing U.S. flyer named Douglas Corrigan had been sighted off the Irish Coast. Reutlinger promptly put in transatlantic phone calls to all three of Ireland's major airports, kept all three lines open until Corrigan landed at Dublin and took the call. "Fly the wrong way?" prompted Reutlinger, mindful that Corrigan, before taking off from New York, had given Los Angeles as his destination. "I sure did," said...
Wrong Way Corrigan. Enter Horab Greenbloom, a character so prodigious that he nearly runs away with the book. Horab can only be described in superlatives of wealth, intelligence, vitality and childishness. He drives his Bentley at top speed, depending for guidance on his passengers ("What's that coming up on the left, Mick? Good God, you should have warned me minutes ago. It nearly hit us"). He flies his deHavilland Moth with the aplomb of Wrong Way Corrigan. Aiming for France, he makes a forced landing instead on a race track in Ireland. Even when he hears a native...