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...last week Felix Lloyd Powell went to Peacehaven's Home Guard headquarters. He sat down at the piano and strummed...
This corny ditty became almost sanctified by the countless heroic circumstances under which it was sung during World War I. The words were written in 1915 by a British vaudeville actor named George Powell. He and his piano-playing brother, Felix Lloyd Powell, who wrote the music, netted $60,000 from the song...
After the war Felix Lloyd Powell wrote other tunes, which were never very popular. He got into real estate in the town of Peacehaven on the Sussex Coast, became the vice chairman of the Piddinghoe Parish Council, was embroiled in a campaign to change Peacehaven's name to Southcliffe. When World War II came, 53-year-old Felix Lloyd Powell joined the Home Guard. Last year he tried his hand at composition again, wrote a song called Home Guards on Patrol. One stanza went...
Hero of Along These Streets is Felix Bartain Macalister, scion of a solid old Philadelphia family. Shy, thoughtful, idealistic, Felix is afraid of women and in some unexplained way his physical economy is adjusted to do without love: he seems to be oppressed by a fear that he, like a salmon, will die after mating. But as the story progresses he comes to know women better and to fear them less. On page 434 he almost has an affair, and on page 540 he actually does. In the end he marries, after much soul searching...
...describing the Philadelphia phenomenon-the mingled ugliness and beauty of the city, its noble traditions and wasted opportunities and decay, its kindly and brainless aristocrats, the weird customs and stately orgies of its men's clubs, the gastronomic peaks of its cuisine. "In all the world," says Felix's lawyer at lunch, "there is no equal of Philadelphia strawberry ice cream. In fact, I might say that outside of Philadelphia no one knows what ice cream really...