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Only one American, winner of the prize for literature, did not show up: Author Ernest Hemingway (TIME, Dec. 13) remained in Cuba, nursing the aches and breaks he got early this year in two African plane crashes. But Papa had sent a stirring message, which was read for him by the U.S. Ambassador to Sweden. After apologizing for "having no facility for speech-making and no command of oratory nor any domination of rhetoric...
Somewhere a little old lady named Virginia sits reading her newspaper in a rocking chair. Sometimes the headlines in the papers frighten here, and this is one of those times. DOCTOR SAM TELLS OF TUSSLE; REDS HOLD INNOCENT SOLDIERS; HEMINGWAY RECOVERS FROM CRASH WOUNDS, they say. Virginia lowers her spectacles and quivers. She had always thought there was a Santa Claus, ever since that nice editor answered here letter, but maybe...
...this is Santa Claus. He was not, as you may have feared, the bushy-haired intruder in the Sheppard home that July night, and his red clothes don't early have anything to do with those Red Chinese you worry about sometimes. Nor was he the one who forced Hemingway's plane down in the African jungles, disguised as some sort of silly bird...
...been busy, Virginia, helping along the poor little people, and gleaning a little floss from the dross. How do you think Dorothy Kilgallen would have had a chance to write again without the murder trial? Why do you think Hemingway got a Nobel Prize right after hurting his head, And who do you think has been busy in his North Pole workshop whipping up a new wing for Winthrop House...
...impossible to overlook the adolescent in Hemingway-his bravado, his emotional friendships, his vague but all-important code, his deep sentimentality about the good, the true, the straight, the beautiful, and occasionally the unprintable. But to preserve something of the adolescent through three decades in a world of literary critics, parodizers and cocktail-party highbrows takes a certain admirable courage. Above all, Hemingway can laugh at himself. Typical of Hemingway making fun of Hemingway is El Ordine Militar, Nobile y Espirituoso de los Caballeros de Brusadelli-which means, more or less, the Military Order of the Noble and Spirited Knights...