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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...returned to the U.S., not unaware of the fame he had attained but unready for its demands. The people of Albuquerque gave him a $500 wrist watch. Paulette Goddard, Olivia de Havilland and Jinx Falkenburg kissed him, all in one afternoon. Two universities gave him honorary degrees. Admirers sent him apples, pecans, a cowboy belt, a jeep. He won a Pulitzer Prize, and the first Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for war correspondence. His collected G.I. columns, Here Is Your War, sold over a million copies; a second collection, Brave Men, sold 875,000. Hollywood made a movie (soon...
...sure way for any mathematician to achieve immortal fame would be to prove or disprove the Riemann hypothesis. This baffling theory, which deals with prime numbers, is usually stated in Riemann's symbolism as follows: "All the nontrivial zeros of the zeta function of s, a complex variable, lie on the line where sigma is ½-(sigma being the real part of s)." The theory was propounded in 1859 by Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (who revolutionized geometry and laid the foundations for Einstein's theory of relativity). No layman has ever been able to understand...
I.C.S. officials and faculty are rightfully proud of the men they have helped to fame. Among them are the late Walter P. Chrysler, Curtiss-Wright President Guy Warner Vaughan, Rifle Inventor John C. Garand, Curtis Publishing Company's President Walter Fuller, the C.I.O.'s Philip Murray. Britain's famed Cartoonist David Low got his start in New Zealand with a four-year I.C.S. cartooning course. Recently I.C.S. received a grateful letter praising "the schooling which Dad got from your correspondence course. . . ." The writer: E. N, Eisenhower, brother of the Supreme Commander...
Irene Castle McLaughlin, who tripped her way to fame during World War I with such sprightly dances as the Maxixe and the Castle Walk, was completely out of sympathy with World War II's jitterbugging: "It's not dancing-it belongs to the realm of athletics . . . they look like a netful of fish...
...Hedy. Fritz Mandl was the scion of Austria's pre-Anschluss Hirtenberg Arms factory. In Vienna of the 1920's he acquired notoriety as a young viveur who gambled for high stakes, and kept fancy apartments. His grande affaire was Second Wife Hedy Kiesler (Lamarr) of Ecstasy fame...