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...wide outbreak of labor disputes in the closing months of the World War. To aid in the settlement of one of these disputes, the strike of the California lumberjacks, Wilson sent to the coast the chairman of his War Labor Policies Board, the thirty-six-year-old, Austrian-born Felix Frankfurter. Arriving in San Francisco before the strike leaders, Frankfurter accepted an invitation to dinner on his first evening in the city, returned to his hotel at eleven o'clock. In the lobby his associates met him to tell him that the lumberjacks had arrived and were waiting...
...Felix Frankfurter's capacity for dealing with men is the tool which has enabled him to exert the extraordinary influence with which he is rightly credited. Take, for example, his influence on the development of public law in the United States. His work has been done, not through the medium of his own books, which are few and of secondary importance, but through his stimulation of other men. Scarcely an important book has been published in recent years dealing with public law in which the author does not acknowledge his debt to Professor Frankfurter for suggesting the work...
...literally thousands of men who pass through the portals of the Harvard Law School. His ideas are notoriously liberal, his stimulating quality as a teacher in a small group unrivalled. He knows an extraordinary number of his students by their first names and in turn is known as "Felix" to his group of ardent disciples. With many of his former students he keeps in touch after graduation by means of a voluminous correspondence and due to his wide connections and reputation, he annually places many men in positions with private firms or with the government...
...jackets and soft shirts play for the pocket billiard (pool) championship of the world. "Quiet Please" signs were unnecessary, for excited spectators hardly dared to breathe. The players, who had forged through the three weeks' tournament to top a list of ten were Erwin Rudolph of Cleveland and Felix Delasandro (Andrew Ponzi) of Philadelphia. Rudolph is medium-sized round-faced, stolid. He developed his cue skill between working in a steel mill and playing a violin in a cinema house, held the world's championship title in 1927 and 1930. Ponzi is an Italian whose greying black hair...
Married. Natica Nast, daughter of Publisher Conde Nast (Vogue, Vanity Fair, House & Garden); and Gerald F. Warburg, second son of Banker Felix M. Warburg (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), grandson of the late Jacob H. Schiff; in Manhattan. Mr. Warburg was lately divorced in Reno by Marion Bab Warburg...