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...first citizen-its mayor, whose principal job is to keep the metropolis' delicately adjusted mechanism from flying apart. In the year of its anniversary, New York's mayor happens to be an ex-policeman and ex-bartender, a onetime Army general named William O'Dwyer. According to an old saw, he is a typical New Yorker in that he was not born there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Big Bonanza | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...yard dash--Won by Hamblett (H); 2, Hall (RIS); 3, Dwyer (RIS). Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Nine Succumbs to B.C., 6-2; Trackmen Gain R.I. State Triumph | 4/20/1948 | See Source »

...pound class: Dwyer defeated Sherwood; O'Keefe defeated Hagee; Weiss defeated Butler; Vera defeated Smith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boxers Complete Opening Fights; Finals Tomorrow | 3/10/1948 | See Source »

...much help: the strains of Annie Laurie and Auld Lang Syne; a neighing, galloping horse (Eddie Cantor was a wrong guess); cat yowls; a horn tootling. Columnists and rocking-chair dopesters were certain they had it. Some of the "sure things": Sir Harry Lauder, George Gallup, Mayor O'Dwyer, Jack Benny, Gene Tunney, All-America Fullback Doak Walker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The $22,500 Footsteps | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...York City's Mayor William O'Dwyer, keeping up a brisk pace after being advised to slow down, was hustled off to the hospital. Nothing to worry about, the doctors said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Thoughts & Afterthoughts | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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