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...Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, presided at the Forum during the 45 minute question period. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy's two sons, Joseph P. Jr. '38, and John F. '40 and their grandfather, John F. Fitzgerald, former mayor of Boston, were at the Forum and spoke with Laski afterwards...
Last night a crowd that jammed the New Lecture Hall to capacity heard one of the most important contributions that the American History Plan has yet given the University or the general public. Professor Felix Frankfurter has become one of the public figures of the nation, with his name cropping up in the metropolitan press, whenever a Supreme Court post becomes vacant, or a major change in Administration policy is decided upon. But with the glorification of the Professor into a public figure, the immediate Harvard community is bound to suffer, for no one can be a household word...
...fifth annual Ice Carnival of the Skating Club of New York last week gave the U. S. its first look at the world's figure-skating champion, 22-year-old Felix Kaspar. To followers of skating this was more important than all the other events of that pretentious show-a "George Washington Ball"; a ballet set to Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake; a "reproduction" of the Currier & Ives skating print; the appearances of Toronto's Louise Bertram & Stewart Reburn (the Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers of skating), of Comedian Eric Wait with his absurd walking stunt, of 83-year...
...Little Felix Kaspar won the world's championship in 1937, succeeding his fellow Viennese Karl Schaefer, who had held the title seven years running. Something of a blade, Kaspar often wears trousers rather than tights, always wears a grin on his dimpled pink face. His greatest accomplishment, however, is jumping. He is only 5 ft. 5 in. tall, yet one of his Axel Paulsen jumps has been measured as over 4 ft. 6 in. high, 18 ft. 6 in. long. In last week's Carnival, for which his billings were changed (for diplomatic reasons) from "Champion of Austria...
...distraction of giving courses, preparing examinations, grading papers. Many of the Institute's members are Jewish exiles from Germany. Directed by Dr. Abraham Flexner, the Institute was started in 1933 with a $5,000,000 endowment from Louis Bamberger, retired Newark department store tycoon, and his sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld...