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...Munich, Publisher Felix Buttersack moaned: "What shall I do?" Two hours after the polls closed, his newspaper, Merkur, had scooped Bavaria with the headline: THOMAS E. DEWEY-AMERICA'S NEW PRESiDENT.† Merkur carried a vivid account of how the victorious Governor Dewey had thanked the people in a radio address. Buttersack said he had simply trusted the polls. "What," added Felix Buttersack, "is Dr. Gallup going...
...union of one man's mind and another man's money. Comparing the scholarly output of Germany, England, France and the U.S., Abraham Flexner deplored the "wild, uncontrolled and uncritical expansion" in U.S. universities. Newark Merchant Louis Bamberger and his sister Mrs. Felix Fuld gave Flexner $5,000,000 to start a place where a few scholars could just "sit and think." Scientist Vannevar Bush was skeptical: "Well, I can see how you could tell whether they were sitting...
Married. Second Lieut. Felix Anthony ("Doc") Blanchard, 23, hefty "Mr. Inside" of the Army's great wartime football teams,* now an Air Force fighter pilot; and Josephine ("Jody") King, 21, San Antonio socialite; in San Antonio...
...answer is simple. Just mention the collection of blinking green traffic lights on the road to Wellesley, the Howard Johnson's on the Square, the television set in Jim's Place, the Three Brothers' Valateria's fancy tailor-newsstand-shoeshine establishment on Mt. Auburn Street, the refurbishing in Felix', the shoe and book sections at the Coop, or the Music Department's appointment of Randall Thompson. They're all brand new. And so are 200 Radcliffe Freshmen...
...FELIX SINGER New York City