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...Hosted a dinner honoring the Justices of the Supreme. Court. Justice Felix Frankfurter, who recently suffered a heart ailment, was absent, and Chief Justice Earl Warren, down with a virus, sent his regrets. Added upsets: at dinner, Mrs. Howard Tinney, a Newport, R.I. friend of the Eisenhowers, left the table with a toothache; Mrs. Howard Simpson, wife of the president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, became ill, was later described as having "rapid action of the heart''; Mrs. Earl Warren tripped on the White House front steps, quipped: "It's obvious I need my husband...
...with what is surely the year's most brilliantly glittering cast. For the main roles they hired Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster and David Niven. And for the supporting parts they got four of Britain's most distinguished performers: Wendy Killer, Gladys Cooper, Cathleen Nesbitt and Felix Aylmer...
Leading candidates who failed of a majority the first time would have to run next Sunday, and in this category were ex-Premiers Mollet, Georges Bidault, Paul Reynaud and Felix Gaillard. Even though there was a big Communist vote, most of their leaders failed to get elected even in safe constituencies, and must face runoffs where other candidates will combine against them...
...free Ireland." Dispatched to London on a secret mission to recover a canvas of the late Spanish painter, Afrodisio Lafuente y Chaos, that the Dublin press has loudly and incorrectly trumpeted as Ireland's own, Tommy promptly funks it and is rescued by a Wodehousian young Englishman named Felix Horniman. Chiefly because Tommy reminds him of a dyspeptic monkey he once befriended in India, Felix casually pinches the picture for him, and the two of them make off for Dublin. The rest of Novelist Tracy's book is a Waughtered-down Irish stew...
Another loser in the riots was the Ivory Coast's Political Boss Felix Houphouet-Boigny, who lives in Paris as the only black African in Charles de Gaulle's Cabinet. He has long ruled the Ivory Coast as a personal fief, and when he ordered it to vote yes in the De Gaulle referendum, 99% of the voters obligingly did so. As he prepared last week to fly home, Houphouet-Boigny sent a message ahead of him that was read to a public meeting...