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Associate Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter LL.B. '06, presided over the "United States Court of Appeals for the Ames Circuit" last Wednesday evening in the final round of the Ames Competition, with Casner Equity Club beating Casner Law. The case concerned the appeal of a federal employee discharged under the loyalty review program...
...years since the Emperor Diocletian's price control edict (301 A.D.), and rigid economic regulation and manpower control had become a way of life in the Roman Empire. To Bureaucrat Caius Sempronius Felix (a fictional but true-to-history creation of British Novelist Alfred Duggan), his wife's question seemed unsophisticated. Felix could concede that controls discouraged production, halted expansion and bred more controls, but he found it unthinkable that society could ever again get along without them...
...three judges for the debate are: Hon, Raymond S. Wilkins of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts; Hon. Albert B. Maris of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the third circuit; and, acting as chief judge, Hon, Felix J. Frankfurter, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States...
...Partenkirchen, in the lee of Germany's towering Zugspitze, champion bobsledders of eight nations were in gleeful spirits last week. After two days of unseasonably mild weather, the icy 1936 Olympic bobsled course had frozen hard and fast over its tortuous, 1,800-yard length. Switzerland's Felix Endrich, clumping around the take-off point, had particular reason to be happy: he had won the world championship two-man bobsled title earlier in the week, and his bride of less than a month was sitting in the stands rooting for him to repeat in the four-man event...
Duggan himself, like Felix a man in a niche (he is the expert on armor for the British Natural History Museum), is not one to discuss politics as such. But 15 centuries from home, he can utter a refined razzberry at some noteworthy blunderers of the past...