Word: flynn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announcement by Oilman James Wymore of Salina, Kans. gave shock-resistant Hollywood a jolt: his daughter, Cinestarlet Patrice, 23, was going to marry her leading man Errol Flynn, 41, who has been saying for quite a while that he would marry Rumanian Princess Irene ("The Geek") Ghica, 20. Flynn, now in the midst of a court squabble over alimony payments to first wife Lili Damita, had a characteristically playful comment to make on Patrice, who is very nearsighted: "All I'll have to do is hide her glasses and she'll never be able to find...
...Errol Flynn, who says he is still "very much in love" with his recent house guest, Rumanian Princess Irine Ghica, complained that the $23,200 in alimony which he pays each year to first wife Lili Damita is just too much for him: "I may have to print my own money soon unless the amount is reduced." Another outstanding Flynn liability: $6,000 a year to second wife Nora Eddington (now married to Singer Dick Haymes) for the support of their two children...
Handsome Police Captain John G. Flynn had been questioned by the Brooklyn grand jury, presumably about gambling and police graft in his precinct. He had neither been indicted nor recalled for further examination. But one day last week, 49-year-old Captain Flynn, a World War I Navy veteran, showed up at his 68th Precinct Station, retired to his quarters and shot himself through the head. In a note which he left, he denied that his death had anything to do with gambling or money matters; he chose suicide, he wrote, because of "a lot of headaches in this precinct...
...Dwyer's latest political enemy, Borough President John Cashmore, was carrying on a "war of nerves" against the police department. Furthermore, the investigation reflected on the administration of Mayor William O'Dwyer. The word went out to New York's police to make Captain Flynn's funeral a gesture of defiance to the prosecutor...
Before Captain Flynn's widow and two of his three children marched an imposing procession-the police band, a color guard, 6,000 uniformed cops and plainclothesmen (one-third of the city's entire force). Present at the service in the Roman Catholic Church of the Ascension were the police glee club, which sang the Requiem Mass, the six Catholic, Jewish and Protestant police department chaplains, Police Commissioner William O'Brien and other top-ranking police officials, and, looking grim, Mayor O'Dwyer himself...