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...head of Chicago's hoodlumhood. One night last week two groups of aspiring chieftains reportedly held simultaneous meetings. One was attended by such upstanding citizens as Paul ("The Waiter") Ricca, Tony ("Big Tuna") Accardo and Jackie ("The Lackey") Cerone. The other gathering was graced by Sam ("Teetz") Battaglia, Felix ("Milwaukee Phil") Alderisio and Fiori ("Fifi") Buccieri. The betting was that several of the syndicate's leading lights would soon resort to silence-one way or another...
Astounding Memory. In 1960, Jus tice Felix Frankfurter chose Amsterdam as his Supreme Court law clerk, the only non-Harvard man Frankfurter ever picked. It was a meeting of two omnivorous minds. "He was a man committed to the breadth of life," recalls Amsterdam, who edited Frankfurter's unpublished memoirs. "We got along marvelously...
...When Felix Frankfurter resigned in the summer of 1962. Schlesinger says Kennedy "inclined at first towards Freund" to replace him. Robert Kennedy '48, then attorney-general, urged the President to consider Archibald Cox, then solicitor-general and has since returned to Harvard as professor of Law. "Unhappy about choosing between these two men of high ability and comparable backgrounds" Kennedy instead appointed Arthur Goldberg, now ambassador to the United Nations...
...reason that life isn't all roses is that South Africa has an oppressive racial policy-a bit of news that seems to have hit Co-Playwrights Howard DaSilva and Felix Leon with tardy impact. Inevitably, the odd interracial couple has a run-in with the local Nazi Afrikaner corps, blond and stolid beasts who are decently venal enough to be bought off. Dore Schary, the old Message Pilot of MGM, has directed The Zulu and the Zayda in a spirit of brotherhood that pretty effectively squelches any possible dramatic conflict...
...could be forgiven for never having heard of Lochinvar or Childe Roland. But they should have known from his record that John Lindsay was no dilettante but an accomplished and courageous politician. He had been a superb trial attorney, so good that he had received glowing praise from Justice Felix Frankfurter for his presentation of a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. He had proved himself to be one of New York's alltime champion vote getters in his 17th Congressional District. He was one of the toughest, go-it-alone independents in Congress, a top House expert...