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...FELIX FRANKFURTER REMINISCES (310 pp.)-Recorded in folks with Dr. Harlan B. Phillips...
...hard to be indifferent to the information that Justice Felix Frankfurter, 77, expects to die without having been to the top of the Washington Monument, that he was in his B.V.D.s when President Roosevelt phoned the news of his impending appointment to the Supreme Court and that, when he came to the U.S. from Vienna as a boy of eleven, his English was so poor that he once told his parents, "This man Laundry must be a very rich man because he has so many stores...
...Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Driven to this step by the fact that France has already accepted bids for independence for the other seven members of the Community, the Ivory Coast's Felix Houphouet-Boigny, who would have preferred to keep closer ties with France, bitterly commented: "For a marriage two people are needed, and France never made it as far as the church...
Died. Max Theodor Felix von Laue, 80, German physicist who won the 1914 Nobel Prize for his work on the nature of X rays; of injuries in an auto accident; in West Berlin. Though he did atomic research in the early days of World War II, Von Laue quit in 1943 in protest against the Nazi regime. In 1957 he was spokesman for 18 German physicists who opposed equipping West German forces with tactical nuclear weapons...