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During 4½ years as mayor of New York, Irish-born Bill O'Dwyer often seemed to be doing his bullheaded best to commit political suicide. He made an enemy of President Harry Truman by publicly opposing him as a candidate before the 1948 Democratic Convention. He feuded with reporters. He enraged millions of his fellow citizens in the summer of 1950-when the district attorney began unearthing corruption in New York-by staging the biggest police funeral in city history for a captain who had put a bullet through his head while under investigation...
...figured a special city election in 1950 would be just the thing to rouse the faithful and help put a Democrat in the governor's chair in Albany. Harry Truman swallowed hard, but in the hope (later proved false) of carrying New York, he appointed Bill O'Dwyer ambassador to Mexico...
...acted as if nothing had happened at all, at all, and soon had Mexicans of all classes eating out of his hand. Mexico's President Miguel Aleutian, a broad-minded politician, found him a congenial soul. Thousands of other Mexicans were flattered to find that O'Dwyer spoke Spanish (learned as a youth when he studied for the priesthood at Salamanca, Spain), that he liked bullfights, and was a charming and democratic host...
Following a month's visit with her mother in New Jersey, Sloan Simpson O'Dwyer boarded a plane for Mexico City to rejoin her husband, Ambassador William O'Dwyer. Before she left, Sloan smilingly pooh-poohed rumors that she would divorce His Excellency...
...Thomas Beecham. 79. Partly inspired by stroboscopic photographs, Artist Diego Rivera recently attempted a study in motion, his: 1. Portrait of William O'Dwyer leaving New York...