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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the campaign, O'Dwyer and slender, pretty Sloan Simpson, thirtyish ex-model, had willingly and smilingly posed for photographers wherever they went. To a reporter who asked if a wedding was in the offing, O'Dwyer had coyly replied: "I'll discuss that after election." Then, leaning back in his chair, he had whistled Some Enchanted Evening...
Yearning for a little post-election privacy 59-year-old Bill O'Dwyer last week whisked Sloan Simpson into a green and white police plane and flew off into the wild blue yonder. The press was caught flatfooted. Two hours later the City Hall gave out a statement: "The mayor and Miss Sloan Simpson are at the Gideon Putnam Hotel in Saratoga Springs, where they will be the guests of Mr. & Mrs. Martin J. Sweeney." Guessing at an elopement, a swarm of newsmen and photographers lit out for Saratoga, there cornered the flustered mayor. Was it wedding bells that...
...horde of newsmen and their presence was enough to try the patience of any elderly suitor. O'Dwyer was miffed at the press anyway; only one out of the ten New York newspapers had supported the mayor in his campaign. Finally, he blew up and, wagging his pipe, roared: "There's absolutely nothing to the report I'll marry this weekend. It's all a dirty, contemptible carrying-on on the part of the press...
...also; his secret departure had been a sure way to bring the press tallyhoing after him. Said one reporter sourly: "We don't like this business any more than you do. I'd like to get out of here and take in a football game." At that, O'Dwyer tried futilely to get a plane to take him away...
...itself. Named for Marcus Whitman, the missionary pioneer of Oregon Territory days, it had a fine old campus of broad lawns and red brick buildings, a small but earnest student body (770), high scholastic standing and a sprinkling of noted alumni (among them: U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas). Whitman took all that for granted. What it was after last week was a football team that could win games in its own league...