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...CASE OF SACCO AND VANZETTI- Felix Frankfurter-Little, Brown...
Although the new committee is advisory only and although it is in no sense pro-Sacco or pro-Vanzetti, friends of the condemned Italians welcomed its appointment. Felix Frankfurter's study of the Sacco-Vanzetti case* has become a sort of Sacco-Vanzetti Bible, extracts from which have been read from many a soap-box on many a public square...
Other "first" section porters are Matthew Pearson, Charles A. Henry, Felix Caldwell and tall, light-colored Hunter Newson. All respect Mr. Warner as their chief, even in the matter of billiards, which is their common pastime off duty. None of "the men he runs with" (i. e. Century colleagues) can match Mr. Warner for calmness and accuracy with a cue. His record billiard...
...July issue of the World's Work begins the narrative of Count Felix von Luckner, one of those stray adventurers on the fringe of the Great War who prevented even that mechanical conflict from being without its heroes. The only officer in the German Navy who had served under sail, he was chosen to command a raider which, disguised as a neutral schooner, was to break through the Allied blockade. The Sea Eagle, like the Confederate cruisers during the Civil War, carried the flag of a beleagured nation around the seas; like them, she destroyed enemy commerce while guarding...
...long avenue and over a viaduct, picked their way through cobbled, streets, drew up before the withered wooden Palace. Straightway "Little Otto," a chubby sapling in a Byronic collar, handsome, frank of feature, stood bowing before Her Grand Ducal Highness, Princess Charlotte of Luxembourg, and the Prince Consort, Felix of Bourbon-Parma. Though newsgatherers did not penetrate the inflexible reserve of the Grand Ducal Court, it became known that Prince Otto and his mother expected to remain only briefly at Luxembourg, and it was believed that they would shortly be permitted to return to Hungary- a return ardently desired...