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Political strife always begets enmities. Witness the case of James Al Farley, the present Postmaster General and once the most popular man in New York city. When Jim was boxing commissioner and had an occasional ticket to give away, his friends were legion. Numerically they'd fill Madison Square Garden a hundred times over-if Jim had the tickets! Seriously, though, Jim's excursion into the realm of municipal politics was a misstep which, when the returns came in, he had cause to regret. A Fusion campaign in the metropolis engenders a crusading, holier-than-thou spirit which brooks no outside interference. When both Tammany and Jim's boy friend, Joe McKee (and what has become of Joe, by the way?) went down to defeat, the lady battlers for the cause of Fusion still harbored a bit of resentment against Jimxx for what they considered his unwarranted entry **** into local New York city politics, and only last week a distinguished Nex Manhattan matron, who was in the forefront of the Fusion forces, referred slightingly to Jim as that "prize-fighting political manager of the national administration!" drew- home Here Jay janders