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...Smith Democrat in 1928. Schlesinger became a close friend of Felix Frankfurter and James M. Landis at the Law School, and warmly supported the New Deal. In later years he helped organize the Massachusetts chapter of Americans for Democratic Action, chaired the United Labor Committee of Massachusetts, and campaigned against Red-hunting Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin and William Jenner of Indiana...
...frail Russian prince sat in a darkened Manhattan courtroom and watched a TV re-enactment of one of history's most famous assassinations-the 1916 murder of Rasputin, the lecherous monk who held Svengalian power over the Czar and Czarina. Then the lights went on, and Prince Felix Youssoupoff, the man who did the deed, now a 78-year-old Parisian, got down to business-his $1,500,000 suit against the Columbia Broadcasting System for invasion of privacy...
...Kadett, which borrows some of its lines from the Ford Mustang, and NSU's Spider, the only car in the world powered by the Wankel engine. Twelve companies in the U.S., Britain, France, Italy and Japan are now experimenting with the engine (which was developed in 1954 by Felix Wankel, a German engineer). The Wankel replaces conventional pistons and cylinders with a triangular rotor, has only two major moving parts and weighs much less than conventional engines. Other engineering trends showed off: a swing toward a combination of disk and drum brakes even in some of the lower-priced...
...Alger Hiss went on trial in New York as a result of evidence gathered in an investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Hiss had graduated from Harvard Law School in the thirties, and while in Cambridge had been on the Law Review and a protege of Felix Frankfurter. When he went to Washington as a federal administrator, Hiss, like countless servants of the New Deal, symbolized Harvard to the nation. And, when he was convicted of perjury, the real charge in the public mind was espionage, and the University was viewed with suspicion as the "Kremlin...
Died. Leonhard Felix Fuld, 82, wealthy Manhattan recluse and philanthropist, whose fortune from stocks and real estate topped $25 million at his death and whose abiding interest (he never explained why) was the health of student nurses, for which he gave hospitals some $10 million over the years, all the while living with a sister in one of his Harlem tenements, until she died of malnutrition in 1956; of arteriosclerosis; in Trenton...