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His farm at Carmel, N.Y. is a place to relax; so is his ranch in Nevada. (Flynn sold his Lake Mahopac place last summer.)* But the Bronx apartment, where the big freckled Boss likes to sit playing Russian bank and gin rummy with his attractive, unpolitical wife, is Flynn's pride & joy. The home is a home: Flynn has tried to keep his home life a thing apart. He chews gum, smokes a lot, wears Charvet ties of extraordinary loudness, and sincerely believes he has never taken a political job, but has always been shoved into each one.
Very soon now, win or lose, he may get shoved out of one—much to his relief.
*A main Republican worry: explaining away the fact that Republican Ham Fish could by seniority thus become chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Probability: Fish would be forced to choose instead to head the powerful Rules Committee.
*Some Belgian paving blocks, owned by the City of New York, turned up installed as flagstones at his Lake Mahopac summer house, allegedly laid by city workmen at city expense. Flynn was hastily cleared by a Bronx jury, and the paving blocks returned to the city. This is the only "scandal" that has ever attached to Flynn's name through all the years of scandals all around him. Reason: when some Flynn henchman gets into trouble, Flynn lets him take the rap, on the simple ground that honesty is the best policy.