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Died. Martene Windsor (Bill) Corum, 63, syndicated New York Journal-American sports columnist, president of Louisville's Churchill Downs race track, network commentator for major boxing events and the World Series; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Missouri-born Bill Corum started out with the New York Times, went over to Hearst in 1925. That year he saw his first Kentucky Derby, from then on advertised the race so fondly in his columns that when Colonel Matt Winn died in 1949 Corum found that he had written his way into the presidency of Churchill Downs...
David J. Heinsma '62 and Alan K. Henrikson '62 spoke for the affirmative, and Richard G. Corum '62 and Alfred J. Dougherty '62 upheld the negative side. The debate topic was "Resolved: That further development of nuclear weapons should be prohibited by international agreement...
...Comfort. In Liberty, Mo., after they found Motorist James Denoff sweating over a stalled car, pushed it for him, waved him on his way, Officers Jack Corum and Donald Morris learned that Denoff had stolen the automobile, was using it for his getaway from a supermarket robbery...
...casual observer, the roaring bedlam in Ohio Stadium a fortnight ago was just another football game. To the Hearst papers' Bill Corum, it was a sociological phenomenon. Columnist Corum easily saw through the trickery of the T, the brute power of the single wing, and discovered the real difference between Michigan and Ohio State. Buckeye superiority, he decided, rested on an institution a good deal older than football: marriage...
After that, it came as no surprise that an unnamed Michigan "undergraduate" wrote a conveniently column-length letter to Corum explaining why Michigan lost. "This was a game between the Married Men, Ohio State, and the Single Men, us," wrote Corum's correspondent. "Of course, we have some married men, too. but we just didn't have enough of 'em. [There are only four married men on the Michigan squad, twelve on Ohio State...