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...London last week, handsome, hollow-eyed Princess Irina Alexandrovna Youssoupov and her husband Prince Felix were guests of honor at a bright little dinner party to which were invited Gertrude Lawrence, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mr. and Mrs. James J. Walker. The dinner was to celebrate an occasion. The Princess had just received from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Ltd. a check for the largest libel settlement ever made. Though only four people in the world supposedly knew the exact amount, good guessers put it in the neighborhood...
Thirtyfour, Jewish and a lawyer, David Saperstein is one New Dealer who did not receive his inspiration from Felix Frankfurter and the Harvard Law School. From Columbia he returned across the Hudson to his home town of Union City, N. J., where he soon entered the firm of Platoff, Saperstein & Platoff. The Platoffs and the Sapersteins were old neighbors in suburban Weehawken. Mr. Pecora took him to Washington as his chief assistant in the Senate Banking & Currency Committee investigation. David Saperstein used to play semi-pro baseball, now loves poker and the writing of unpublished plays...
...though not its chairman, admittedly its prime-mover is David Eli Lilienthal. Short, baldish and a bear for work. Dave Lilienthal like a number of other New Dealers is young (35), Jewish and a Harvard Law School graduate who was fired with his zest for public wealing by Felix Frankfurter. For years he has been battling the ogre of private ownership. President Roosevelt picked him from Wisconsin's unorthodox public service commission...
...pager. Few years ago the Association bought him a $25 font of new type because his own supply, reputedly 100 years old, was so illegible that, what with Mr. Smith's proneness to typographical errors, the members could hardly decipher his writings. The youngest member was not there. Felix Moitoret, 11, stayed in Oakland. Calif, where he publishes The High Filth Herald. He was represented by Father Anthony J. ("Tony") Moitoret, crack political writer for the Oakland Tribune...
...ridge sailed Richard Chichester du Pont, 24-year-old son of Vice President Alexis Felix du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., in his new sailplane Albatross II which he and Gliderman Hawley Bowlus had designed & built in California. Like a great flying fish, sleek in the sun, Albatross II soared out over the valley, circled back over the ridge, climbed higher & higher on a thermal current. By staying in the air five hours young du Pont would get his "D" license, held by only one other U. S. pilot, John K. (''Jack...