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Last week Reporter Jack Steele of the New York Herald Tribune (see PRESS) broke the news that Flo and Chuck were an influential twosome when it came to getting loans from the Reconstruction Finance Corp.* In May 1950, they called on three RFC directors on behalf of one Sam Fleisher, a Minneapolis contractor who wanted to build a ritzy waterfront hotel in Miami Beach. Fleisher's loan application had been turned down four times, but a few days after Flo and Chuck made their rounds, a loan for $1,100,000 went through RFC with no trouble. Reporter Steele...
...Mama was terrified" when Flo Nightingale announced she wanted to be a nurse. In 1845, any mother would have felt the same way. Nurses were dirty, drunken, promiscuous. Florence Nightingale would change all that as she was to change many things. British army privates in their fetid barracks, smug bureaucrats in the musty War Office, viceroys in palaces were all to feel the reach of her will and missionary zeal...
...there was no mistaking his interest in Marilyn Miller, the loveliest Ziegfeld girl of them all. "I would prefer," wrote Billie, "to think that Flo was merely fascinated by Marilyn Miller, but ... he idolized...
After a great deal of angry thought, Billie decided-as she always did during their 18 turbulent years of marriage-that she did not want a divorce. "In spite of everything, I knew that Flo loved me." She sent for him, and a reconciliation scene followed...
...Flo reached in his pocket and handed me a [diamond] bracelet . . . which must have cost $20,000. I snatched it from him and flung it into a corner. Flo didn't flick an eye to see where it went, but I did, and Patricia Ziegfeld still wears it on very formal occasions...