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...Choice. Blake was one of 283 whites and Negroes, including 26 Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergymen, arrested in an integration march on the gaudy Gwynn Oak Amusement Park outside Baltimore, which has long barred Negroes from its 64 acres. Arrested with him were Bishop Daniel Corrigan, director of the home department of the national council of the Protestant Episcopal Church...
With Drs. Willis B. Mitchell and Walter E. Corrigan as cochairmen, the campaign committee signed up 14 registered nurses, organized Boy Scouts, Candy-Stripers and Blue Belles (high school hospital volunteers) to help them by toting gear and logging names. Because any mass health project is most efficient when the subjects are brought together and can be run through a line, the Toms River tine testers worked the public schools first; they also jabbed the forearms of cadets at Admiral Farragut Academy. But the testers had to do a house-to-house...
...copy boy in 1914 and, on the strength of such scoops as the Black Sox baseball scandal and the Lindbergh kidnaping ransom note, climbed to city editor (1936-51) and managing editor (1951-60); of cancer; in Chicago. In 1938, guessing that a daredevilish pilot named Douglas Corrigan might not fly to Los Angeles from New York as he had told civil aeronautics officials, Reutlinger put in transatlantic phone calls to major Irish airports. Reaching Corrigan just after the flyer landed his single-engined monoplane at Dublin, the newsman prompted, "Fly the wrong way?" "I sure did," said the pilot...
...millionaires, Trammell Crow made his fortune by building and operating warehouses in a dozen states, and Carr P. Collins and his sons got their multimillion-dollar stake in the insurance business. Texas Instruments Chairman Erik Jonsson was busy piling up what eventually became $100 million in electronics, and Leo Corrigan was rapidly multiplying his wealth by building a hotel combine that now stretches from the Bahamas to Hong Kong...
...Corrigan got a Lao-language daily newspaper started on a Mimeograph machine, built the King a radio station (advancing part of the money for equipment himself), was trying to get a library going. When the fighting started, Corrigan was in the air more than ever, flying leaflet-dropping missions over enemy lines as well as his movie runs. He distrusted the rickety planes he had to ride, once pointed to a battered single-engined Piper Tri-Pacer and advised a newsman: "I wouldn't fly in that for a million dollars." But when Cor igan got ready to deliver...