Corky Corcoran

Considering the habits of swinging jazz tenor saxophonists, a love of uncorking wine bottles might have led to the nickname of Gene "Corky" Corcoran. More extensive research into the surname of Corcoran provides the insight that the nickname of "Corky" is almost an automatic consequence of the Corcoran birthright. Other people who are called Corky Corcoran seem to abound both in real life and in fiction, a world novelists have populated with the likes of Corky Corcoran the spymaster and Corky Corcoran the cocky Irish Catholic alcoholic self-made millionaire. By contrast, the ...