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Strong-man Morinigo, who grabbed authority Sept. 7, 1940, after the airplane-crash death of President Jose Felix Estigarribia, made his job "legal" last February in an election in which he was the only candidate. Now there were three grand balls, many banquets and luncheons, parades and a sports show to assure the people that their choice was not unduly limited...
Picturesque "Prich" Prichard arrived in Washington with a cum laude degree from Harvard Law School, and without the distinction of not being a protege of Justice Felix Frankfurter. He moved on to the Justice Department, to the new Office of Economic Stabilization. On dull days, when there was nothing else to decide, Washington quidnuncs often decided that he was the king-sized nucleus of a new Brain Trust...
Visually the New Opera Company's Merry Widow is as up-to-date as a Reno divorce. Smartly streamlined by Director Felix Brentano (a former Max Reinhardt protege) and studded with billowing ballets by George Balanchine, Lehar's masterpiece now looks like something that had just stepped out of a Park Avenue boudoir...
...Institute flourishes in a single handsome red-brick building, Fuld Hall, at the west end of town. Fuld is surrounded by lush Institute acres-site of the Revolutionary Battle of Princeton. The Institute's founders, Louis Bamberger (of the great Newark department store) and his sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld, have given the scholars $8,000,000 worth of scholarly apparatus and comforts...
...whom Abraham Lincoln called the smartest of the Confederate civil leaders is no more familiar to most U.S. readers than Felix Kirk Zollicoffer.* Yet Judah Philip Benjamin was one of the most astonishing figures in U.S. history. This week, 59 years after his death, he got a full-length biography...