Human Hunk of Gloom
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For the kind of Independence Day in which fireworks explode in the air and not in the hands, New Yorkers can thank the late William Jay Gaynor, whose single term as mayor ended in 1913. A little man with a Vandyke beard, volcanic temper, and cold blue eyes, Gaynor was a pioneer in the cause of a “safe and sane” Fourth of July.
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