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...most fascinating evenings I ever spent was listening to Felix Belair of our Washington office describing the mannerisms of U.S. legislators: how Carter Glass pounds the table when he gets riled, how Louisiana's Ellender whips off his glasses before he speaks, how Oregon's McNary shoots his cuffs, how Cotton Ed Smith is a dead shot at a cuspidor...
...year-old artist, brush in hand, died of a heart attack. Last week one Felix Napoleon Gerson of Philadelphia wrote the New York Times that when he attempted one evening in 1883, to stare at the Nymphs and Satyr and use the Hoffman House alcohol cigaret lighter at the same time, the bartender called to him: "Say, young fellow, don't light your nose...
Into the Army in Manhattan went Prince Gaëtan de Bourbon-Parme, 37-year-old brother of former Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary, week after the induction of his nephews (Archdukes) Felix and Charles Ludwig. The nephews will probably wind up in the much-criticized battalion of Austrian nationals promoted by brother Pretender Otto, but Uncle Gaëtan, a descendant of Louis XIV, is a French citizen and ineligible...
Into the Army at Virginia's Fort Myer went (Archduke) Felix Habsburg, 26, brother (Archduke) Charles Ludwig, 24, brothers of Austrian Pretender Otto. Enlistment being out, they had "volunteered for immediate 'induction," will probably be assigned to the new U.S. battalion of Austrians after preliminary training at Camp...
...enough American fighters into action to earn for them more than 3.838 medals.* Army heroes won 2,298; the Navy's, 1,388; Marines, 147; Coast Guard, 5. Most decorated: the Navy's Lieut. Commander John Bulkeley, 5; the Army's Lieut. Colonel Felix Hardison...