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Nothing was too good for William O'Dwyer as he abruptly bowed out last week as mayor of New York. Grover Whalen, the man with the carnation in his buttonhole who officiates at the city's ceremonial greetings, turned himself inside out and whipped up a ceremonial farewell. All that was missing was a turnout of a few million New Yorkers...
...employees, policemen, firemen and seven bands under limp silk flags-marched up Broadway. In front of City Hall, party bosses, military commanders, the consuls of some 50 foreign nations, City Council President Vincent Impellitteri, the mayor's pretty wife in an aqua velveteen hat, and Bill O'Dwyer arrayed themselves on a hastily constructed platform. Seven policemen and an octogenarian deputy fire commissioner collapsed in the heat. O'Dwyer presented Grover Whalen with a $450 gold medal for "extraordinary public service...
...Have Been Summoned." O'Dwyer, off to become Ambassador to Mexico, said, with what he described as "a heart filled with strong emotions": "I have been summoned by the President of the U.S. to undertake a job of vital importance to our nation's interest. I feel it my duty in this period of national crisis to accept this assignment." (Another duty in a period of national crisis he left unfinished: that of preparing the nation's biggest city against atomic attack.) That evening the O'Dwyers left New York...
...touching display of loyalty, New York City's retiring Mayor O'Dwyer was rewarding a few public servants he will leave behind when he goes to Mexico as ambassador. The detective who had chauffeured the mayor's Cadillac was appointed Seventh Deputy Police Commissioner, forthwith applied for retirement on the $6,000-a-year pension of a commissioner. O'Dwyer's other driver and his bodyguard, $5,150-a-year detectives, were also appointed deputy police commissioners, entitled to the same melon-sized pensions. As for O'Dwyer's executive secretary, the mayor...
...this point it seemed as if O'Dwyer was bent on making enemies damaging to the party and vanishing from public life. But things didn't work out that way at all. A few weeks ago Ed Flynn, the cagey, power-minded Democratic boss of The Bronx, asked himself a very interesting question: "What if O'Dwyer resigned...