In 1919, Mr. Flynn was named director of the Bureau of Investigation. Attorney General Palmer praised his new appointee as "the leading, organizing detective of America...Flynn is an anarchist chaser...the greatest anarchist expert in the United States." On September 27, 1921, Mr. Flynn resigned saying he had a "private business matter to accept." Attorney General Harry Daugherty accepted the resignation immediately and appointed William J. Burns to the position.
William of Vercelli (aka William of Monte Vergine) was the founder of the Hermits of Monte Vergine, or Williamites, in 1119.
William Whewell invented the English word "scientist" in 1833; before this time the only terms in use were "natural philosopher" and "man of science." The term "palaetiology" was coined in 1837 by Whewell to refer to those sciences which have as their object the reconstruction of the past based on the evidence of the present.
WilliamJ. Schroeder became the first artificial heart recipient to be discharged from the hospital in 1985, as he moved into an apartment in Louisville, Ky. Among all artificial heart recipients, Schroeder lived the longest, surviving 620 days with a Jarvik-7 heart until his death in 1986.
William E. Remick worked on large paintings in his South End studio while listening to music -- sometimes a single movement of a Dmitri Shostakovich string quartet over and over as he applied layer after layer of color to the canvas.
Remick, who was as adept in the world of accounting as he was in art, took his life Dec. 11 in his studio, which was part of the apartment where he lived, said Leslie Wilcox, his companion of 23 years.
Flynn said he and his friend would walk down Newbury Street and stop when they came to a particularly flat piece of sidewalk.
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