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Died. Marshal Louis Felix Marie Francois Franchet d'Esperey, 86, hero of World War I; near Albi, France. Early in the first Battle of the Marne, he was made commander of the French 5th Army. As commander in chief of the Allied forces in the Balkans in 1918, he moved against the Central Powers from the port of Salonika, drove Bulgaria out of the war and forced the capitulation of Turkey. Aside from Petain he was France's only living Marshal...
Undismayed, Architect Kahn filled his partners' places with his younger brothers Louis, Moritz and Felix, kept an eye out for a still younger brother Julius, who was just finishing college. His faith in the Kahn family was not misplaced. Louis is still Albert's chief executive and right-hand man. Felix worked with the famous "six companies" group that built Boulder Dam. Moritz, now dead, supervised most of the work on Russia's Five-Year Plan. The young Julius, later an executive with Republic Steel, invented a new and more precisely calculable method of reinforcing concrete which...
Died. Paul Felix Weingartner, 78, famed German musical conductor; in Winterthur, Switzerland. No longer widely known in the U.S., he was nonetheless one of the world's greatest. He was conductor of the Berlin Symphony (before World War I), the Vienna Opera from 1908 to 1927, guest-conductor of the New York Philharmonic and New York Symphony. He taught at the famed Conservatory in Basle, directed the Vienna State Opera in 1935 and 1936. Later he chose exile in preference to Anschluss...
...shrewdness, his hard common sense. A great belly laugher with ideal physical equipment -he stands 5 ft. 3 and weighs 200 lb. -he gets along fabulously well with laugh-loving Franklin Roosevelt. He works well with Harry Hopkins. Vice President Henry Wallace, Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Justice Felix Frankfurter, Lend-Leaser Major General James H. Burns...
...like this. With her blue-&-white Argentine merchant flag floating free, ARGENTINA and a painted flag enormous on her flanks, the brand-new, U.S.-built, 12,500-ton tanker Victoria, Felix G. D. Salomone, Master, tanks blown full of Argentine linseed, was clipping along northbound 300 miles off Cape Hatteras. Just before sundown one day, a torpedo smacked into her 30 feet aft of amidships. Deck plates buckled, but her all-welded Albany hull stood up: the bulkheads of the tanks were unbreached...