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Ever since 1932, the chief job of the Democratic Party's national chairman has been to keep Southern reactionaries and the New Dealers from flying at each other's throats. Genial, hustling Jim Farley managed it with expert finesse; genial, phlegmatic Ed Flynn almost let it go by default...
Last week it appeared that Ed Flynn, who has long wanted to resign, would be eased into an ambassadorship (perhaps to Ecuador) and that Franklin Roosevelt had decided on quiet, balding Postmaster General Frank Comerford Walker to head the national committee. Franklin Roosevelt's decision would have to be formulated into a command, for neither Frank Walker nor any other Democrat wanted the job. (A Washington story had it that two men, both previously mentioned for the position, had agreed between themselves that each would attempt to persuade Franklin Roosevelt from asking the other to assume the chairmanship...
Late Returns. Hollywood almost kept Actresses Gordon and Anderson out of The Three Sisters. To begin with, Director McClintic put off starting rehearsals for weeks because the two stars were finishing a movie, The Edge of Darkness. Errol Flynn was in the movie, and also in a mess. Had Hollywood followed its first panic impulse-to reshoot a lot of scenes -it would have meant recasting The Three Sisters. As it was, Actress Gordon arrived ten days late for rehearsals, Actress Anderson two weeks...
Gentleman Jim (Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Alan Hale, Jack Carson; TIME...
Besides these awards, the Committee approved the 136-letters won by athletes participating in fall sports and also passed on the granting of major football H's to Gordy Lyle and Wally Flynn, both of whom failed to get into the Yale game...