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Ethical Culturists wince at being labeled atheists, but their basic premise is that man can help build himself a better society based on a rational morality and human cooperation without reference to belief in God. Founder of the movement was Felix Adler, a rabbi's son and professor of Hebrew and Oriental literature at Cornell, who reluctantly decided that there was no hope of reforming Judaism from within. Giving up religious practice, Adler in 1876 undertook a series of Sunday morning lectures on contemporary moral issues. Among his early followers was Samuel Gompers, first president of the American Federation...
...found in the racks of every bus station. On a trip to Prague in 1930, Hermann Karlovich, a Russian émigré in the chocolate-manufacturing business based in Berlin, meets a vagrant whose face is astonishingly like his own. Or so it appears to Hermann; Felix Wohlfahrt, the tramp, does not notice the resemblance. Back in Berlin, Hermann broods. It soon becomes clear that he is a schizophrenic and that his thoughts are murderous. As innocent accomplices to his plot he recruits three people-including his wife-lures Felix to a little lakeside wood near Berlin, and after some...
...rambling Senate speech larded with Familiar Quotations from Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, Douglas MacArthur, Abraham Lincoln and Everett McKinley Dirksen, the Republican leader reiterated his fear that the reapportionment of state legislatures entirely on the basis of population would lead to their domination by "the bosses of the big-city political machines." Instead, Dirksen proposed, the voters in any state should be allowed to decide for themselves whether they wanted to elect one chamber on the basis of geographical or political subdivisions...
...persons. Even then, a prime suspect may not confess and "clear the books" of all those unsolved burglaries until he is offered a deal, such as concurrent sentences equaling the rap for just one burglary. "Despite modern advances in the technology of crime detection," summed up the late Justice Felix Frankfurter, "offenses frequently occur about which things cannot be made to speak. And where there cannot be found innocent human witnesses to such offenses, nothing remains-if police investigation is not to be balked before it has fairly begun-but to seek out possibly guilty witnesses and ask them questions...
...high point of his anti-ash campaign came when he dropped in-unexpectedly, of course-at a press briefing conducted by Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman. Seating himself next to New York Timesman Felix Belair Jr., the President began fidgeting when he noticed that the ash on Belair's cigarette was lengthening inexorably. Ostentatiously, he reached over and dragged a stand-up ashtray to the reporter's side. Too late; the offending ash broke loose and rained onto the green carpet. Mortified, Belair quickly followed it down, kneeling to scoop it up with his notebook. As the ash disappeared...