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...Count Felix von Luclcner, 58, famed "Sea Devil" scourge of Allied shipping in World War I, turned up behind the western front, trying to save his hometown, Halle, from Major General Terry Allen's attack. Previously reported as 1) an active Nazi and 2) in the party's bad graces because of his friendship for America, he exclaimed: "By Jove! I haven't been so happy since I ran the British blockade of 1916!" But General Allen's only terms were unconditional surrender, and three days later Halle fell...
Right-Hand Men. With Harry Truman in the White House, there would be no room for Franklin Roosevelt's "anonymous" assistants, nor for the advice and influence of Harry Hopkins, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, ex-OPAdministrator Leon Henderson, Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, Judge Sam Rosenman, and others of the inner New Deal circle...
Alger Hiss was one of the Harvard Law School students whose records earned them the favor of Professor (now Justice) Felix Frankfurter and a year as secretary to the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. He was drafted from a New York law firm by the New Deal in 1933, joined the State Department in 1936, accompanied President Roosevelt to Yalta...
...Felix Aylmer plays Mr. Emmanuel with wise dignity, and leaves the feeling that no one else could quite fill the bill. His performance blends with the soft European beauty of Greta Gynt and the calm, leisurely pacing characteristic of English films to create an extremely satisfying impression of finished artistry. There is fidelity of characterization; unlike American screen women, who are invariably trim, several of the female leads are frankly heavy. There are glimpses of Goering and Himmler that ring very true, and desperate expressions on the faces of tortured Jews which tell the whole miserable story of persecution...
...Wrote Pfc. Felix J. Murphy Jr. of Bellaire, L.I.: "It still does not seem possible that so much hell could have been all in one place. Someone's prayers were answered, also mine, because I came out. . . . I don't really think I was afraid to die, but I was afraid of something. . . . I felt that when God wanted me he would take me, so I just kept on praying...