Word: goths
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...only decoration in the Philadelphia office of Samuel Simeon Pels is a bust of Abraham Lincoln, made entirely of soap. That is fitting enough: Samuel Fels, who celebrated his goth birthday last week, has spent a lifetime making soap. Still active as president of Fels & Co. (Fels-Naptha), which his father and brother founded 74 years ago, Soapmaker Fels put in a five-hour day, as usual, in his office across from the factory. Though he makes only soap and soap chips-and has never gone in for soap opera-Fels has steadily kept his company among...
...only team that the varsity plays-twice this season, the second game being scheduled for Tuesday at home. Little is known about the Terriers except that Harvard beat them last year and that goth teams still are using much of their 1948 squad...
...many of the guests had been invited up to Ithaca. But everything had to be postponed: the birthday boy was nowhere around. Liberty Hyde Bailey, when last heard from, was somewhere in the West Indies, wandering through jungles in search of rare plants and palms. And not even his goth birthday would bring him back from such an expedition...
...letters, published this week (Mendelssohn Letters, edited by G. Selden-Goth; Pantheon Books Inc., $4.50), prove that the light-hearted Felix was a curious target for so much Nazi venom. Hardly aware of his Jewish ancestry, Felix was a devout Christian. Some of his paragraphs were so passionately certain of the supremacy of German art that even the shrill Dr. Goebbels might have applauded. He wrote his family: "There is surely no art like our German one!" And to Goethe...
...page book, Editor-translator Gisella Selden-Goth finecombed the German shelves in New York libraries and the Library of Congress. Said she: "If I had been able to use the libraries in Germany there would have been a great deal more. [If the Mendelssohn correspondence] . . . shared the fate of other spiritual products of Jewish origin ... no complete edition of his letters can ever be published...