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Newsstand owners were unwilling to discuss their actions. "I don't want any comment on this thing," said Angelo Caragianes, manager of Felix Newsstand. Frank Nini of Nini's Newsstand cited economic reasons for his decision, "They don't sell...
...celebrating its 150th anniversary, and the sum of what it has accomplished in those years is indeed impressive. Its faculty is regarded by many as the finest in the U.S. More than 40,000 lawyers have studied there, including such men as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Roscoe Pound and Felix Frankfurter. Among today's leaders, the school has produced Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Yale President Kingman Brewster and Sociologist David Riesman. The quality is matched by quantity. Harvard Law has prepared fully one-fourth of all U.S. law professors, and its 21,000 living graduates...
Died. Prince Felix Youssoupoff, 80, gentlemanly assassin of Czarist Russia's "Mad Monk," Rasputin; of a stroke; in Paris. Heir to one of his nation's greatest fortunes (an estimated $350 million), Youssoupoff plotted with other noblemen in 1916 to murder Rasputin because of his hypnotic hold on the Czarina. As the Prince told it, he lured the holy man to his palace, where it took a combination of cyanide, five bullets and a bludgeoning to accomplish the deed. A refugee in France after the Revolution, Youssoupoff fought several court battles over its dramatization. Most recently he lost...
Pain has been an inescapable part of being a Red Sox fan for many years also because the Red Sox have had so many capable individuals. Remember Frank Malzone, Eddie Bressoud, Chuch Schilling, Dick Stuart, Bill Monboquette, Felix Mantilla? All good ballplayers, in their way. Yet despite their presence the Sox had long languished in the depths of the American League...
They traded loveable Felix Mantilla for a lame-armed utility infielder. They traded home-run hitting Dick Stuart for a lame-armed pitcher. They virtually gave away a .290 hitter, Eddie Bressoud. They virtually gave away their best pitcher, Earl Wilson...