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...sure of winning, he will need lots of Republican votes, for Irish-born (in County Mayo), 51 -year-old Judge O'Dwyer is not exactly a pushover. A onetime longshoreman, plasterer's helper, he started pounding New York City's pavements as a rookie cop just 24 years...
Died. Eddie Guerin, 80, Irish-born international crook, bank robber and purse-snatcher; in poverty, at Bury, Lancashire, England. Celebrated for his criminal exploits in collaboration with the legendary "Chicago May" Churchill, who helped him stick up the American Express office in Paris, Guerin made a sensational escape from Devil's Island in 1905, only to find, when he reached London, that "Chicago May" had deserted him for a new lover...
Arise, My Love (Paramount) turns the neat trick of setting a comedy against the background of current events in Europe. Its principal device is to hustle a carefree American aviator (Irish-born Ray Milland) and a beauteous American reporter (French-born Claudette Colbert) through a series of romantic interludes spiced with lines whose moral and political implications would have made the Hays office of a year ago writhe in righteous indignation. While Milland is escaping from a Spanish prison camp, drinking with Miss Colbert in Paris just prior to the outbreak of war, and making love in the forest...
...Irish-born Dr. Kennedy, head of the Neurological Department of Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, served four years with the British Army in World War I, is a cousin of Lieut. General Sir John Greer Dill, Chief of Staff of the British Army. In a florid, passionate speech on "Science, Civilization and Faith," he lashed out at a group of 500 eminent scientists, headed by Physicist Arthur Holly Compton of Chicage, who had sent a "peace resolution" to President Roosevelt...
Died. John Kenlon, 80, Irish-born, longtime (1911-31) Fire Chief of New York City, who attended more than 40,000 fires (then lost count), never went near one after his retirement; of heart disease; in Englewood Cliffs...