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on the go
with Corcoran
Two painting hobbyists — newsman Corcoran and President Eisenhower — share a laugh.
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John checks with former Premier Mossadegh before recent government upheavals in Iran.
Newsman John Corcoran hops across oceans and continents with the aplomb of a suburbanite catching his morning train — and for both, it is just a way of getting to work. The difference is that Philadelphia's ace news commentator has followed a commuting timetable which has been synchronized with history and has involved an exciting, globe-circling chase after headlines and headline-makers. The worthwhile results are heard Monday through Saturday evenings at 6: 30 and again at 11 over Station WPEN.
The Corcoran knack of being on the spot when news breaks took him to Berlin in the early days of Hitler's bid for power. Likewise, he was in Rome during the Trieste riots and in London, interviewing' Ramsey MacDonald, the night the Labor Party came into power. And when he finally paid a return visit to his home town of Burton-on-Trent in England, John arrived just in time to witness the explosion of an underground arsenal!
What the school bus is to the modern schoolboy, the ocean liner was to John Corcoran, who shuttled between schools in Massachusetts and England. Between terms, he traveled throughout Europe, contributing news to a string of local British papers, and later wrote for "Pictorial Review Magazine" and Philadelphia's old Daily News. Then he began devoting more time to newscasting and radio analysis and, during the conventions and campaigns of 1948, he covered both parties on network programs.
When he's not headline-hunting, John pursues a pleasant, profitable hobby which he developed during school vacations, when he managed a food crew of sixty-three men at New England resorts. Now he is justly proud of his countryside inn at Hatboro, Pennsylvania, for the "Old Mill," built in 1724, is a famed eating rendezvous where congressmen and generals pass the salt and pepper to lesser-known gourmets. The Corcorans, who met in Philadelphia, have four children ranging in age from twenty-seven to eight. Son Laurie recently presented John with some of the best news of his life — his first grandchild.
Meanwhile, John Corcoran continues to make the airwaves crackle with incisive reporting and a clear wit that cuts through rumors and intrigues, wordy reports and veiled speeches, to bring Philadelphians the true facts behind the news.