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...Manhattan, grizzled Bronx Democratic Boss Ed Flynn, who had just made his debut as an author (You're the Boss, TIME, Sept. 8), made a more characteristic sound. He hoped Tom Dewey would win the Republican presidential nomination because, he said: "I'm sure Truman can beat him in New York...
...secret to the police that an efficient "abortion mill" was operating somewhere in New York City. Cops and detectives had worked for five weeks, tapping wires, spying through binoculars, loafing around in disguise, before they could put the finger on an apartment house in The Bronx. Some fine undercover work was done during the American Legion Convention by a policeman and a policewoman disguised as a Kansas Legionnaire and his wife...
Hatches & Horrors. Twice the President had to duck objects hurled at him. One time a dagger was thrown; it was made of rubber. Another time, during a parade, a well-wrapped ham sandwich dropped into his lap from an apartment house in The Bronx...
...Tear in the Eye. Flynn believes that graftless government is good politics (at least in The Bronx). Politicians of Flynn's kind, knowing that they are more honest than they have to be, are disappointed when the public withholds full acclaim from politicians who take their main pay in power rather than in boodle...
...worried over the choice-whereas the majority of their fellow citizens were doubtless unaware that the vacancy even existed. Flynn's book, a record of such attention to detail, demonstrates again that eternal vigilance is the price of bossism. Ed Flynn "took care" of plain people in The Bronx so well that he became one of Roosevelt's closest political advisers and hobnobbed with history on missions to Moscow, Yalta and the Vatican...