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Finally the President chose Boss Edward Joseph Flynn of The Bronx, who said: "I do not hope to equal the record of my predecessor and friend, Jim Farley, but I will do my best...
Bronx Boy. Irish Catholic Ed Flynn was born, reared, schooled (at Fordham University) in New York City's teeming Borough of The Bronx. He is a graduate cum laude of the seamy school of politics. But no seams show on Edward J. Flynn. At 48 he is trimly built, iron-grey, dresses even more splendidly than Jersey City's Boss Frank Hague. Blackest spot that Boss-Buster Tom Dewey could find on Ed Flynn was the fact that when he was Sheriff of The Bronx (1921-25) one of his deputies was Gangster Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer...
Bigwig Democrats have seen something of Ed Flynn at the last three national conventions. But he is a stranger to thousands of local party hacks whom Jim Farley calls by first names...
Only attempt to part the war clouds was the opening of Don Dickerman's Pirate's Den around the corner from Slapsie Maxie Rosenblooms screwball restaurant. Under festoons of fish nets and anchor chains Stockholders Rudy Vallee, Fred MacMurray, Errol Flynn, Jimmie Fidler (in pirate costume), Johnny Weissmuller, Ken Murray (in pirate costume) and others fed (at $7.50 a head) decorative celebrities and the prominent press. Among the 400 eaters: Hearst's Polly Prying Louella Parsons, Columnists Ed Sullivan and Jimmie Fidler, Comic Jack Benny, Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen (his balding head swathed in a pirate...
Marriage Denied. By Cinemactress Arline Judge, 28, and Cafe Socialite James McKinley Bryant, 31, who announced his marriage to her "somewhere in Kentucky" after the Derby. Protested Mr. Bryant later: "How could I marry her when I'm still married to Mickey Flynn?" Sighed Miss Judge: "It's all so ridiculous." Divorced. Kent Cooper, general manager of Associated Press; by Marian Rothwell Cooper; after 20 years of marriage; in Miami...