Word: gard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Roger Martin du Gard, 77, French novelist and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for literature, for the ten-volume Les Thibault, a sort of hindsight saga of French life after the turn of the century; in Bellême, France...
When it appeared in France early this year, the book was a runaway bestseller (65,000 copies sold), generating shock waves of conscience. It was banned within weeks. Four leading men of letters-André Malraux, Roger Martin du Gard, François Mauriac, Jean-Paul Sartre-buried their political differences to dispatch a "solemn petition" to France's President René Coty asking the government to lift the ban on The Question and "condemn unequivocally the use of torture, which brings shame to the cause that it supposedly serves." Still illegal, sales of The Question have since soared...
...Sven Gard of Sweden in his presentation speech, said that the discoveries marked a "new epoch" for science around the world...
Judge Saul S. Streit, in sentencing fixer Salvatore Soliazzo to eight to 16 years in jail and former players Ed Gard, Ed Warner, Al Roth, and Harvey Schaff to terms ranging from six months to three years, strongly criticized the nation's colleges yesterday for "commercialism and over-emphasis in arthritics and intercollegiate football in particular...
...fresh muck came to the surface when District Attorney Frank Hogan gathered in two more Long Island University stars, Nathan Miller and Lou Lipman. During the 1948-49 season, said Hogan, these two, plus the ubiquitous Ed Gard (TIME, Feb. 26) and two other L.I.U. players identified as "X" and "Y," made a deal to rig the L.I.U.-Duquesne game. The players decided to ask for $5,000-$1 ,000 apiece. But after the game, four of them held a little powwow without "X." "The boys," said Hogan, "were working out a cute one on 'X' ": Gard, Miller...