Word: feller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apartment overlooking Manhattan's Central Park, Abraham Feller sat nervously one morning last week, chatting with his wife. For two weeks he had been acting strangely, had even mentioned suicide. Mrs. Feller left him only momentarily to call the family doctor, then returned to the living room...
Book on a Table. But before the doctor came, Abe Feller jumped to his feet. "It's no use," he cried. "The doctors can't help me!" He ran to the rear of the apartment. Mrs. Feller clung to him-first to his head, then to one arm, finally to one leg. While she struggled, Feller threw open a window. She screamed and cried, "Don't jump!" He broke away, and within seconds his body lay twelve stories below in an open cellarway...
...former New Deal lawyer in Washington, he worked as a liaison agent between the U.N. and Senate committees investigating Communist activities among American personnel of the organization. However, a counsel for the McCarran Senate sub-committee conducting one probe said Feller himself was not under investigation...
Associates said Feller recently had offered his oral resignation from the U.N. post. Mrs. Feller said the recent resignation of secretary-general Lie might have been "a contributing factor" in his death. Feller reportedly wrote some of Lie's most important statements...
...Feller attributed his death partly to "fatigue and overwork...