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Tall (6 ft. 3 in.) Yaleman Morris was one of the eager young men of Fiorello La Guardia's Fusion administration in New York. He served as president of the city council under the Little Flower (1938-46), ran unsuccessfully for mayor against William O'Dwyer. Morris has a gift for the pompous phrase and the ill-turned paragraph; as a reporter once said to him: "You were born with a silver foot in your mouth...
When a Frankfurt-New York plane put down at La Guardia Field, reporters greeted Barbara Hutton with a bit of good news: a Paris court had just granted her a French divorce from fourth husband Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, supplementing her short-order Mexican decree of last summer...
...soon graduated from secretary to personnel work. When American switched its headquarters from Chicago to New York's La Guardia Airport, it sent her ahead to survey housing, recreation facilities, churches, etc., in the area. She wrote a pamphlet giving all the answers, bossed the move of 700 employees, with scarcely a hitch. When American opened an administrative office in Washington in 1942, she was picked to help run it. She dealt expertly with government agencies, got to know important people in & out of Congress, became an accomplished lobbyist for the airline's projects...
...simple certainty that his own case of lymphosarcoma (a cancerous disease of the lymphatic tissues) is incurable, he left Manhattan's Memorial Hospital, to fly home to Brazil with his pretty wife Marcina. "A man ought to die at home," he told reporters on his way to La Guardia Field. "We have a fine new house at Joao Pessoa. We've been making payments on it for three years...
...Largely at the hands of fiery Fiorello La Guardia, who later put through a city sales tax when he became mayor of New York. Said he: "It's all wrong in theory, but it does raise money...