Write a SHORT biography on Frank Flynn.
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Frank Flynn ( portrayed by Louis Todaro) is a major character in the story arc "Just in Time". At the end of the previous story arc "Get the Message", he somehow summoned Ghostwriter to go back in time to the year 1928 and help him. He was born in 1916 to his parents Elizabeth and Sean. His family begun to face hard times, so his dad reluctantly left them to travel all around the country to find a job to properly support them.
His father wrote to him and his mom on a regular basis. Then when the letters suddenly stopping coming, he and his mom were not sure if he was still alive or not. Then his mom begun to work day and night to support them. Then soon she got sick from the stress and exhaustion and her heart gave out and she died from heart failure. Now Frank had ambition, he wanted to grow up and become a doctor to help all patients: rich or poor. Also now he was all alone. So he ran away and started to live on the street and begun stealing just to survive.
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Although born on a winter night in New York City, this artist actually has spent most of his career in the California sunshine. One advantage -- some would say a disadvantage in Hollywood -- Frank Flynn had over many similar well-trained, prolific, and versatile instrumentalists in his field was age and wisdom. His professional music activities began at least a decade prior to players that would become his peers on the busy studio recording scene. Still a teenager, Flynn began in 1933 to study a combination of percussion, arranging, and vibraphone in Huntington Park, CA. In 1936 he joined an orchestra fronted by the slinky Slim Martin.
Flynn also made use of his arranging training during this period; Ben Pollack was one of the bandleaders whose outfits utilized Flynn's jottings. In Ted Fio Rito's neat-o band, Flynn came forward for some vocalizing as well as haunting the back of the stage on a drum set. From 1938 through 1942 he seems to have mostly been involved in writing arrangements, followed by an Air Force stint that kept him aloft from the music scene through the mid-'40s. He landed back in the civilian force as a bandleader, negotiating engagements for his own dance band as well as taking charge of a trio until 1947. The latter group included his brother Bill Flynn on bass.
Freelance success with his combination of keyboard, mallet, and whack-'em, stack-'em percussion led to a great number of employment possibilities in the late '40s and onward. Flynn nabbed jobs on radio, television, film soundtracks, and many pop recordings. Determining the high point of this recording marathon seems like a task beyond the capabilities of normal listeners, if there are such things. Several sessions are certainly worth noting, including appropriately tasteful playing behind the Carpenters, a goofy xylophone solo on a Rosemary Clooney side, and a brilliant session with guitarist George Van Eps featuring Flynn's good vibes and Alvin Stoller on bongos.
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Francis Stanislaus ("Frank") Flynn AC FRACO (6 December 1906, Sydney – 29 July 2000) was a Northern Territory-based Australian doctor (ophthalmologist), author and missionary priest. He is notable for his contributions to religion, medicine and Aboriginal welfare.
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He was born on 6 December 1906 and educated in Sydney, receiving MB BS with 1st class honours in 1930. In 1931 he sailed to England and in 1931 and 1933–1934 studied and worked at the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields) in London. Prior to World War II he had made several important contributions to the study of eye disease, including the introduction of a new drug which he named Mydriciane, and the design and patenting of a machine used in operating on detached retinas.[2][5]
He returned to Sydney in 1934 and joined the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (Missionnaires du Sacré-Coeur) (MSC) in December 1935. He was ordained a priest in March 1942 and was sent to the Northern Territory.[2] From 1942 to 1945 worked with Army Hospitals. From 1946 to 1968 he was consulting ophthalmologist to the Northern Territory Department of Health. His activity as a consulting ophthalmologist to the Northern Territory Trachoma and Eye Health Programme continued until 1992.[5]
From 1944 to 1946 he studied Anthropology with Professor Elkin and gained Diploma of Anthropology at University of Sydney with the intention of gaining "a wider knowledge and appreciation of Aboriginal culture and genealogy, and academic methods of field research".[5]
As early as 1942 maybe he had identified and officially reported that there was an appallingly high level of trachoma amongst the Australian Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory. In 1957 he made a full report on his findings in The Medical Journal of Australia. In 1976 an official Australian-wide survey on trachoma amongst Australian Aboriginals was started under the direction of Professor Fred Hollows.[2]
In 1967 Flynn was transferred to Port Moresby as Administrator of the Cathedral and Director of Catholic Health Services in Papua New Guinea. In 1970 the Medical Faculty at the University of Papua New Guinea was founded.[2]
He returned to Darwin in 1977 and was still active in the 1990s; for example, in 1995 he worked with Army medical eye service units which travelled to isolated Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory.[2]