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...school early to enter the Naval Academy as a skinny (6 ft. 3 in., 115 lb.) youngster of 16. He finished 27th in his 1927 class, then plunged wholeheartedly into naval aviation. His rise to high rank was steady, up to a third star as deputy to Pacific Commander Felix Stump in 1957. Then he abruptly asked for a reduction to two-star rank so that he could command a carrier division and meet an old tradition that an admiral's flag is not really earned unless it is flown...
...eleven years the Communists have dodged those penalties. In court after court they have argued that registration deprives them of their rights of free speech, press and association. But Justice Felix Frankfurter, speaking for the majority, held that there is a higher right-the right of Congress "to bring foreign-dominated organizations out into the open where the public can evaluate their activities informedly against the revealed background of their character, nature and connections." Added Frankfurter: "Where the mask of anonymity which an organization's members wear serves the double purpose of protecting them from popular prejudice...
...Restrainers. When he mulls over a difficult decision in the Supreme Court, Justice Felix Frankfurter often likes to consider the words of one of his heroes, Oliver Wendell Holmes. "About 75 years ago," Holmes once said, "I learned that I was not God. And so when the people want to do something I can't find anything in the Constitution expressly forbidding them to do, I say, whether I like it or not, 'Goddamit...
Heeding Holmes, Felix Frankfurter has time and again supported the will of the people-as that will is expressed in acts passed by the U.S. Congress and the state legislatures. Doing so, he has become the leader of a bloc of four Justices who believe in "judicial restraint"-meaning that the court should support the valid acts of Congress or other governing bodies, even when the Justices personally, politically or philosophically disagree with them. The other three in the Frankfurter group are Tom C. Clark, Charles E. Whittaker and John Marshall Harlan...
Colors show a reaction against last year's brilliance. Pink and purple, though still blindingly around, are moving aside for brown mixed with black and other softer combinations. A fashion show put together by the buying house Felix Lilienthal & Co., highlights such colors as cognac, pumpkin, mustard and apricot. Mollie Parnis and Hannah Troy are two of many showing soft brown, smoky green, and blue (robin's egg, peacock) for daytime. Arthur Jablow's collection by David Kidd includes suits in browns from palest beige through butterscotch to ebony, while Jane Derby combines navy and green. Though...