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...guardians of the trust fund of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish dynamite tycoon, found anyone worthy of the greatest of their beneficences, the so-called Nobel Peace Prize. They made up lost time last "week by awarding the Peace Prize twice in succession: for 1929 to Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime janitor, lawyer, onetime U. S. Secretary of State; for 1930 to the Most Rev. Dr. Nathan Lars Olof Jonathan Soderblom, Archbishop of Upsala, primate of the Lutheran Church in Sweden, father of twelve. Each of these distinguished gentlemen will receive $46,430. U. S. newspapers cheered, for Mr. Kellogg...
...Tall, spindly, brass-haired, pock-marked Sinclair Lewis was born Feb. 7, 1885, in Sauk Center, Minn. His father, a country physician, had migrated from Connecticut, so at the proper age young Sinclair went to Yale. But at the beginning of his fourth year, he deserted college to become janitor for a socialistic Utopia called Helicon Hall which had just been founded in New Jersey by Upton Sinclair, radical novelist. Poor, Sinclair Lewis lived by writing children's verse and squib jokes for magazines until he obtained an assistant editorship on the now defunct monthly Transatlantic Tales. He left...
...driving a taxi around the Yard at six this morning?....with the cornet player from the Somerset band?....serves them both right....I will not....I haven't enough money....ball comes high around here....I won't do it....he has all our tickets?....omigod....ask the janitor if he'll run down to the station and find out if they'll take a cheque....take it away....take it away....I don't want any....I'm through with it I tell you. . . .no not just a little bit. . . .hair of the dog. . . . hair of the mamma...
Birthday. Nathalia Crane of Brooklyn, who at 10 gained fame with her book of poems The Janitor's Boy. Age: 17. Date: Aug. 11. Celebration: Telling about her new poem Pocahontas, in which eight modern poets chase the Communists from the U. S., make Pocahontas queen...
...year from now TIME will report the financial status of this Dougherty family. Arthur Court of Indianapolis, onetime janitor, who won $84,750 in the English Derby last year, last week had "only a few thousand" left. His investments: a spar mine in Illinois, some bonds now down $200 each, two farms, a barbecue stand with filling station and dance hall...