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Upstairs on a table in the Feller apartment lay a copy of a book Feller had written about the U.N. and dedicated to his 17-year-old daughter: "To Caroline and her generation." His own generation had been too much for Abe Feller...
Trials & Tribulations. Abe Feller, a tough-minded man who had long shown an abundance of intellectual and physical resiliency, had been working himself mercilessly, and he had grown progressively depressed in recent weeks over the trials & tribulations afflicting the U.N. He was worried about the U.N.'s inability to end the Korean war (he was one of the two U.N. officials who, on June 25, 1950, advised Secretary General Trygve Lie to advocate U.N. intervention). He was upset over Lie's resignation last week. But what depressed Feller most were the problems and pressures that had been laid...
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...
...angrily charged that Abe Feller's suicide had been brought on by the extra strain of defending Americans at U.N. against "indiscriminate smears and exaggerated charges." Senators McCarran, Willis Smith of North Carolina and James Eastland of Mississippi just as angrily called Lie's accusation "irresponsible," and promised to continue the inquiry...
...House Un-American Activities Committee, continuing its search of Who's Who in the Communist world, quizzed Hollywood-Broadway Writer Abe (Guys and Dolls) Burrows, 41, who freely admitted that he had furnished lyrics and piano accompaniment for many a Red gathering in filmland, but had never paid dues nor signed the card. Said he: "If [someone] said I was a Communist Party member he was probably telling the truth as he saw it. I was seen with them. I was around, but I wasn't one of the fellows." Burrows had been "pretty naive," commented Committeeman Harold...