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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Title-story of Kay Boyle's The White Horses of Vienna won the 1935 0. Henry Short Story Award, shows how geography alters cases. Author Boyle's heroic hero is a Nazi, but in Austria. Critics of Kay Boyle think she takes a perverse, malicious interest in abnormal people, and most of the denizens of her back yard are indeed a queer lot. Most normal seem blood relations to characters out of D. H. Lawrence or Katherine Mansfield. Her stories are glimpses of people rather than peep shows of action, and often do not "make sense." Yet even...
Arthur Edwin Kennelly, 74, professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, onetime assistant to Thomas A. Edison, codiscoverer of the radio-reflecting region of electrified air called the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer; the Mascart Medal, awarded every three years by the Societe Franchise des Electriciens: for contributions to pure science and for services on international commit tees whose efforts culminated last sum mer in the adoption of the centimetre-gram-second system of units by the Inter national Electrotechnical Commission. First U. S. scientist to receive the Mascart Medal, venerable Dr. Kennelly hoped its bestowal...
...American Association for the Advancement of Science: for a paper on plant hormones, including one which causes roots to sprout from any place on the stem if rubbed with the hormonal preparation. Dr. William Bosworth Castle, 38, associate professor of Harvard's School of Medicine; the Procter Award of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science: for showing that pernicious anemia may be due to inefficient digestive juices. Isaiah Bowman, 57, president of Johns Hopkins University; the Henry Grier Bryant Gold Medal of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia: for being "scholarly and original in research, philosophical in his thinking...
...award of $100 is offered for the best specimen submitted in the Third Annual Short Story Contest sponsored by Story Magazine in colleges throughout the country. Harvard entries in the competition will be judged by editors of the Advocate...
...badly wounded in 1925 that he had to give up athletics. In literature too he won prizes: France's Grand Prix de Litterature de 1'Academie Française, the prize of the Foundation Tunisienne, England's Northcliffe Prize and Heinemann Award. Author Montherlant, disapproving of the French policy in Tunis, refused the Foundation Tunisienne's 20,000 francs, handed over the Heinemann Prize to London's King's College Hospital...