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The 20 prizes awarded to U.S. citizens were divided among 25 persons. Of these, one, Alexis Carrel (medicine), has returned to France. The first and second U.S. winners in science, Albert Abraham Michelson (physics) and Theodore Richards (chemistry), have died. Five U.S. winners of the peace prize have died: Theodore...
Readers of The New Yorker, where these mordant bits of whimsy first appeared, know Artist Charles Addams as a tireless illustrator of the now commonplace question: Is the world going insane? (see cut). He cares not who makes a civilization's laws so long as he can draw its...
Addams, whom Publisher Bennett Cerf describes as "the gentlest and the kindliest old schizophrene," and for whose work Boris Karloff (who contributes a foreword) has a "whole-souled admiration," is not preoccupied only with married life. From the specialized madnesses of the bedroom and boudoir it is only a stroke...
Many of these drawings need no captions. Their effect on Addams-addicts is as reassuring as the effect on the weird witch of the monstrous Karloff-like creature who brings in her breakfast in one of Addams' best-known drawings. "On, it's only you!" she says, glancing...
Married. Cinemactress Arline Judge, 30; and R.A.F. Captain James Ramage Addams, 38; she for the third time, he for the second; in Montecito, Calif. Her first was Cinedirector Wesley Ruggles, her second Tinplate Heir Dan Topping (now the husband of Skater Sonja Henie). One wedding present: just before the ceremony...