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Will you give us a biographical sketch of "Honorable" Felix E. Alley mentioned in same? M. C. BLAIR Carlisle...
...judge of North Carolina's Superior Court, Felix E. Alley-on whose Random Thoughts and Musings of a Mountaineer TIME reported - has had quite a life of his own. Born in 1873 at the base of North Carolina's Whiteside Mountain, Felix was the youngest of ten children, an asthmatic invalid as a boy. He worked his way through several years of high school, spending 5? or 10? a month for pleasure and keeping house for himself in a mountainside cabin. He borrowed $300 for a year of law school, finished his studies at night while clerking...
...urge for music and lack of money for an instrument moved Felix, as a boy, to make himself a banjo strung with J. & P. Coats spool thread. A Coats Co. stockholder, flood-bound at the Alley house, was so impressed by this contraption that he sent Felix a fine store banjo and persuaded the company to use a picture of a barefoot, banjo-playing boy as a trademark. At 16 Felix also wrote a ballad, Kidder Cole, which became famous...
...three colleges are within eight miles of each other in Philadelphia's suburbs. Two of the three installed new presidents (both Rhodes Scholars) last autumn: Swarthmore, John William Nason, 36; Haverford, Felix Morley, 47, formerly editor of the Washington Post. With Bryn Mawr's scholarly President Marion Edwards Park, 65, they cooked Up a scheme to exchange teachers, books, students...
Birthday. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, 59; in Washington, D.C. He went to work as usual...