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Died. Fiorello H. LaGuardia, 64, New York City's fiery "Little Flower"; of cancer; in The Bronx...
...long time after he left the hospital, few suspected the tryst he kept in his comfortable, $50,000 English-style home in The Bronx. He read voluminously, kept an eye on politics, wrote his weekly opinionated column in the newspaper PM. But last month he warned friends that he would not live much longer. Last week he fell into a coma, slept deeply for four days, rousing only once to drink a little orange juice and to speak a few words with his wife, Marie, and his two adopted children, Jean, 18 and Eric...
...York, practically bankrupt when he took office, was a sound and stable concern when he left. During his twelve years, New York built a new city prison, 67 schools, 262 playgrounds, 14 vast housing projects, two hospitals, great stretches of parkway, the Triborough and Bronx-Whitestone Bridges, the Queens-Midtown Tunnel. It bought and consolidated its subway and surface transportation systems, built miles of new underground rail lines. But he had given the city more than material benefits; he had stamped on the serpent of municipal corruption until it moved only faintly; he had proved that "reform mayors" need...
...people of every race, creed and walk of life had paid a final salute. The next day, 10,000 people jammed the cathedral to attend his funeral. Thousands more stood hatless under overcast skies as his funeral cortege moved with slow music to Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx...
Hang Out Flags. At Sing Sing Prison, Warden William E. Snyder had happy news for the citizens of The Bronx: not a single one of them, he beamed, had been put in his prison during the entire month of August...