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Edward J. Flynn, boss of The Bronx, is far less colorful and articulate than Penrose, far more aware of the significance of his job than Kelly and his kind. Flynn is the new-style boss, well-educated, personable, thoroughly equipped to understand the more complex aspects of modern government. His machine is run from an office building, not from a hotel lobby or a clubhouse. It has a filing system, bylaws and rigidly constructed channels of command...
...Pack. The pursuit of political power in a democracy raises curious ethical problems. Although Flynn boasts again & again that his Bronx machine does not buy votes, he tells with disarming candor how he once adapted himself to the prevailing standard of another community...
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Calm of Ignorance. Bronx-born Regina Resnik was beginning to feel the strain. Said she: "The other times, I guess I had the calm of ignorance, but now it is a nervous strain. I was really scared about Carmen." She was also a little wary of getting a reputation as an operatic spare tire. She had little cause to worry. Since she won the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air and made her surprise debut three years ago, she has sung in many a Met production-Toscx, A'ida, Cavalleria Rusticana, Madame Butterfly, etc. On the strength of such...
...Spanish Harlem." The Okies were mainly California's problem. The problem of the Puerto Ricans is chiefly New York's; more than 90% of them land in New York City. Estimates are that 350,000 are now in burgeoning colonies in Manhattan, Brooklyn and The Bronx. The worst congestion is in "Spanish Harlem," a slum of old, dark, dirt-crusted, cold-water tenements on Manhattan's upper East Side...