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Carroll Dewey Hipp on November 10, 1938. Having divorced Hipp, on September 23, 1943; she married New York City mayor William O'Dwyer on December 20, 1949. O'Dwyer's aids received 250 telegrams of congratulation on the couple's wedding day, including one from his friend, President
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