Word: flynn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having already etched a redoubtable academic reputation for his monographs on marsupial embryology and anatomy, Australian-born Zoologist Theodore Thomson Flynn, 76, closeted himself at the English Channel resort of Hove to finish off a book designed to "set the record straight" on a more complex mammal: his late son Errol. While insisting that "the Errol the public knew-the hard-drinking, hell-raising womanizer-was a legend created by himself for publicity," the retired Belfast University professor (who recently celebrated his 54th wedding anniversary) conceded that his boy was not "perfect by any means. But neither was he wicked...
Nine students have been selected for the March 29 finals of the Boylston Public Speaking Contest. They are: Beeker Bradshaw '62, Peter A. Flynn '62, Virgil T. Fryman, Jr. '62, Robert W. Gordon '62, David G. Gulette '62, Lewis B. Kaden '63, Stanley F. Pickett '62, Frederik Q. Rice '63, and Phillip L. Stotter...
...offices of HUAC's investigators. One office has a large wall map of the United States. Red pins in the map show the location of Communist Party headquarters. A large illustrated chart of the American CP hangs in another office. The rather grandmotherly face of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, chairman of the Party, occupies the center of the top row of this chart. She is surrounded by the faces of other Party higher-ups, most of whom look surly...
...clients ranged from Errol Flynn to Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin to Smoky Bob Mitchum. He was attacked as a publicity hound and had a reputation as a fast man at taking on sensational cases: when the Beverly Hills cops first arrived at the home of Lana Turner after her daughter had stabbed Johnny Stompanato, Giesler opened the door. But underneath all the star-spangled headlines was a quiet, brilliant lawyer, an ambivalence chaser and not an ambulance chaser, who third-guessed his opposition and won his cases less by theatrics than by thorough and meticulous preparation...
Giesler never talked about the fees he charged, but Chaplin reportedly paid him $100,000, Errol Flynn $75,000. He averaged about $150,000 a year-not much for a star whose performance in some of the greatest of Hollywood scenes should have earned him half a dozen Oscars...