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...Byrd took off for the Continent, landing in the French surf. Roosevelt saw Wiley Post and Harold Gatty fly off in the Winnie Mae one June day in 1931, return eight days, 15 hours, 51 minutes later, having set a new round-the-world mark; seven years later Douglas Corrigan roared away for "California," wound up at Baldonnel Airfield, Dublin, and went down in history as "Wrong Way Corrigan." Then five years ago, Roosevelt's history-making days seemed over; housing developments were going up all around it, and it was closed...
With a combined weight of 440 pounds, Canadian law student Don McDonald and Ireland and the Business School's Mike Corrigan are good prospects for an outstanding second row. Leading contenders for the other two forward positions are Stu Nickerson and Dmitri Marchessini...
...What we say and do here will be heard in all the states of the Union," cried white-haired Defense Attorney William J. Corrigan. Day after day, some 50 reporters crowded into a stuffy Cleveland courtroom to cover the case of Dr. Samuel Sheppard, on trial for the murder of his pretty, pregnant wife, Marilyn. Last week, after 30-odd long and often tedious trial days, the prosecution closed with a dramatic scene, the testimony of Sam's former mistress, Susan Hayes...
...Such old-time Texas millionaires as Jesse Jones, who owns dozens of Houston's choicest buildings, and Publisher Amon Carter, whose Fort Worth Star-Telegram is Texas' biggest paper (circ. 241,582), were able to amass their first riches in other fields. So was Dallas' Leo Corrigan, who has pyramided his real-estate holdings to an estimated $500 million (latest project: a $5,000,000 resort hotel in Nassau). But by & large, the big Texas fortunes are now founded on oil and the liberal tax provisions that go with it. Samples: ¶Haroldson Lafayette Hunt...
Norman Wyner's knockout win over Michael Corrigan and TKO victories by Francis Holmes of Dunster, John Canning of Leverett, Tony Murray of Leverett, and Dick Koch of Adams highlighted the first round trials of the inter-House boxing tournament yesterday at the IAB. Wyner, a Winthrop House middleweight, reached the finals in his division last year through KO's in all his matches. His knockout came after only 40 seconds of the first round...