Word: felix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, tall, elegant and unruffled, the Secretary was back at his daily routine. From his red brick house in Georgetown, he either rode to work in a department limousine, or walked with little Justice Felix Frankfurter, his onetime Harvard Law School teacher and close friend. In his fifth-floor office in the new State Department Building in Washington's Foggy Bottom, he tried not to listen to the criticisms, read key telegrams, listened to briefings, held conferences and with his blue, slightly protuberant eyes, studied the state of his foreign policy...
...first two years," says Banker Meyer, "I made every mistake in the book." Then he was persuaded to take on some top professional journalists. As editor he hired able, literate Felix Morley;* as managing editor he got flashy, temperamental Alexander F. ("Casey") Jones from the Minneapolis Journal. Morley, who came to the Post from the Brookings Institution, took editorial writers out of their ivory tower, sent them out to dig up their own facts, soon made the Post's editorial page the best-written and best-read in Washington. The Post supported Roosevelt in most of his foreign policies...
Whatever the original idea, the grace and contrapuntal vigor of the concertos have delighted musicians ever since. Some famous performances: Chopin, playing with Liszt and Ferdinand Hiller; Clara Wieck (later Schumann) with Felix Mendelssohn and Ignaz Moscheles...
HITLER DIRECTS His WAR (187 pp.)-translated and edited by Felix Gilbert -Oxford...
...What Junk?" In Hitler Directs His War, Bryn Mawr History Professor Felix Gilbert has edited the fragments with main attention to the temper and character of Adolf Hitler, reduced many technical and tactical sessions to synopsis treatment in an appendix. One of the first things that struck Editor Gilbert was the way Hitler's personality dominated the conferences-and the vindictive "meanness" of the man's mind. One example: his treatment of hard-pressed Field Marshal von Kluge, whom he called back from the Eastern Front on July 26, 1943, to inform him that some of his Panzer...