Word: felix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With such attractions, the Institute has no trouble finding prospective members. To quote from the list of past members is blatant name-dropping: T. S. Eliot, Arnold Toynbee, Felix Frankfurter. Albert Einstein is a professor emeritus; George Kennan, recently returned to the Institute from Moscow; and the Director since 1947 has been Robert Oppenheimer, previously famed for his work in atomic energy...
This professorial Never-Never-land was founded in 1930 by a gift of Louis Bamberger and his sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld. The exact amount of the Institute's endowment is not public information, but it was not inconsiderable. The Institute several years ago voted half-a-million dollars to Princeton's Firestone Library, in return for use of the library by Institute members...
...began croaking his own songs in an immensely popular radio program. Lara became a kind of musical version of Rudolph Valentino. Touring neighboring republics, he was mobbed by women in the streets. After quarreling with his actress-wife, Carmen Zozoya, Lara met Movie Star María Felix just before a party in honor of her first big picture. "Please come, Señor Lara," cooed María. "But I warn you that we have no piano. Just a guitar." Next day he sent her a snow-white piano and a card inscribed: "With all my respect to beauty...
...Died. Felix S. (for Solomon) Cohen, 46, son of the late Legal Philosopher Morris Cohen and lawyer-champion of the American Indian, who, in a series of state court battles, successfully defended the rights of Indians to vote (1948), to trial under due process of law (1950), to receive Social Security benefits (1953); of cancer; in Washington...
Fainsod traces the history of the first director of the Cheka and OGPU, Felix Dzerzhinsky, who "gave no evidence of Napoleonic ambitions and died in 1926 without attaining Politburo status...