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McCloskey defined "judicial conservative" as a Justice who feels the Court should interfere as little as possible with the affairs of state and national governments. He said that the leading spokesman for this philosophy is former Justice Felix Frankfurter...
Watch the Lingerie. Fantus was set up in Chicago by Chair Manufacturer Felix Fantus, who found the job of finding a new location for his Indiana plant so complicated that he decided that he might make more money in selling industrial real estate. The firm stopped handling real estate in 1935 after Fantus' son-in-law and partner, Leonard Yaseen, saw a bigger future in selling site-finding expertise than in peddling land. Yaseen, 50, now runs the company's New York office while another Fantus son-in-law, Maurice Fulton, 42, heads the Chicago operation. Fantus...
Died. Jean Felix Piccard, 79, bushy-haired cosmic ray scientist and pioneer high-altitude balloonist, whose 1934 ascent to 57,579 ft. broke the record set by his late twin brother Auguste (a deep-sea explorer as well) and brought back data that helped confirm the increase of cosmic rays at higher altitudes; of a heart attack; in Minneapolis...
...everybody was at Palm Beach -and Kennedy was not the only U.S. political leader having thoughts. During the Washington dog days before the opening of Congress, New York Times Correspondent Felix Belair Jr. wandered up to Gettysburg, talked to Dwight Eisenhower, and came away with quite a story. Upon leaving the White House, Ike had vowed to devote much of his post-presidential retirement to applying the lessons of his experience to the nation's problems. Now he was ready with some warnings-and some specific proposals...
Painter John Paul Jones has a mind like a haunted house-and a house of marvels it is. In it, people of all shapes from heaven knows what time or place materialize in room after room. In his current one-man show at Los Angeles' Felix Landau Gallery (see color), he has heads and figures that seem to hover indecisively between existence and nonexistence. His sculptured heads achieve somewhat the same feeling by looking as if they had been buried for a while and had then decided to rejoin the world. Jones, who is an associate professor...