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...plan became so bitter that someone even slipped his memorandum to the Patterson-McCormick press. The New York Daily News howled that the Government intended to set up a "spy director," a U.S. Gestapo and in some manner turn the nation over to the sister of Justice Felix Frankfurter...
...Beria's four predecessors in the C.H.E.K.A., Ogpit, N.K.V.D.: Felix Dzerzhinsky (1917-26), relieved and died of heart attack 1926; Viacheslav Menshinsky (1926-34), died in office 1934! Genrikh Yagoda (1934-36), relieved in 1936, shot for treason 1938; Nikolai Yezhov (1936-38), relieved in 1938, disappeared from public view in 1939, believed dead or insane...
...long been a capable public servant. Born to a pharmacist father and schoolteacher mother in Knoxville, Tenn., he was graduated magna cum laude from Amherst, went on to Harvard Law School. There he became one of the few Negroes ever to serve on the Law Review, and one of Felix Frankfurter's Happy Hot Dogs...
Most of the 13 White House reporters and five photographers who tagged along on the President's Christmas homecoming thought it was a foolish trip. In their stories, some of them said so. Wrote the New York Times's Felix Belair: it was "one of the most hazardous 'sentimental journeys' ever undertaken by an American Chief of State." All last week, editorials viewed the expedition with alarm: it was nice that Harry Truman wanted to go home for Christmas, but it would be an awfully easy way to lose a President...
Taking just two deep breaths, Army's football-wonders blew down Notre Dame, 48-0. Since second-and third-stringers sufficed for nearly half the game, Army's touchdown twins, Glenn ("Speedster") Davis and Felix ("Blockbuster") Blan-'chard, were still in the market for a good stiff workout. Last week's Scoreboard indicated that they might get one, or even two, in their upcoming games with Pennsylvania and Navy. Penn pricked Columbia's little bubble (32-7) and Navy finally lived up to pre-season raves by walloping Michigan (33-7). Some experts, squinting hard...