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Second Lieut. Felix ("Doc") Blanchard, blockbusting "Mr. Inside" of West Point's great wartime football teams, was busy concentrating on his profession. Learning to fly jet fighters at Williams Field, Ariz., he tried on a crash helmet, just for a moment struck a pose reminiscent of old times...
Died. Alexis Felix du Pont, 69, shy director and onetime vice president (1919-46) of the Du Pont munitions and chemical empire; of a heart ailment; in Rehoboth Beach, Del. He entered the family business in 1900, played a major role in the Senate's noisy 1934 investigation of the company's war profits...
...leading actor. Most productions have little to recommend them except a good Hamlet; few have that. This one, in every piece of casting, in every performance, is about as nearly solid as gold can be. It is hard to imagine better work, along traditional lines, than that of Felix Aylmer, snuffling and badgering about as Polonius; or of Basil Sydney (who once played a memorable Hamlet, in modern dress) as the corrupt, tormented usurper; or of Norman Wooland as a gentle, modest, steadfast and wise Horatio. Stanley Holloway, as the Gravedigger, is blessedly out-of-tradition;* he seemed to have...
...quick to say. But the fever left him weak. Undertrained and undernourished after living on relief, he made a try at a comeback, finally quit because he could make more money ($85 a week) as a wartime shipyard worker. It took a lot of talking by glib Felix Bocchiccio, a small-time Camden promoter, to lure him back into the fight racket. Bocchiccio supplied two vital things he lacked before-management and money-and Jersey Joe began punching his way into the headlines...
Like most composers, Debussy was no ardent admirer of conductors. He thus saluted one of the day's most famed, Felix Weingartner: "He . . . conducted [Beethoven's] Pastoral Symphony with the care of a conscientious gardener. He tidied it so neatly as to produce the illusion of a meticulously finished landscape in which the gently undulating hills are made of plush at ten francs the yard and the foliage is crimped with curling-tongs...