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There is a famous picture of Ernest Hemingway taken in the last decade of his life. In the picture, he sits over a table, writing: he leans towards his thick left arm and writes with the other. He is both solid and graceful, not an airy grace but the true grace of a man who seems in absolute control and comfort, his collar opened low on his famous chest. His head inclines towards the left and downward, the eyes lowered to the page and obscured to the viewer. The white, trimmed beard is dignified, the coming together of his lips...
...DIED. ERNEST GOLD, 77, Vienna-born Oscar-winning composer who wrote scores for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Exodus, among other films; of a stroke; in Santa Monica, Calif. Gold broke into Hollywood in the mid-1940s, writing music for low-budget movies for Columbia Pictures...
...Ernest Rutherford, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden discover the structure of the atom...
...British physicist Ernest Rutherford artificially splits an atom...
...American physicist Ernest Lawrence dreams up the cyclotron, the first atom smasher...