Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Married. T. S. for (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, 68, St. Louis-born, naturalized-British Nobel Prizewinner and brilliant, brittle poet of time and mortality (The Waste Land, Four Quartets); and Esmé Valerie Fletcher, 30, for seven years his private secretary at Faber & Faber, Ltd., London publishing firm of which he is a director; he for the second time (his first wife, whom he married in 1915, died in 1947), she for the first; in an Anglican ceremony in London's St. Barnabas Church (Kensington) held at 6:15 a.m. to avoid Fleet Street newsbeagles. Obscurantist Eliot on the gulf...
...straight-haired Chilean poet and schoolteacher who won adulation throughout Latin America for her Sonnets of Death (1914), written after the suicide of a lover, was awarded the permanent post of roving consul (her assignment: to live where she pleased) by the grateful Chilean government, in 1945 received the Nobel Prize for poetry; of cancer; in Hempstead...
...Harvard, Edward W. Purcell, professor of Physics and winner of the Nobel Prize in 1952 for his work in nuclear magnetism, termed this new theory "an extremely important discovery which may be the turning point in the theory of elementary particles...
These unsolicited letters, whether they come from a schoolgirl such as Lisa Fitzgerald or a Nobel prizewinner such as William Faulkner, have one quality in common: a nononsense, no-holds-barred sense of deep and outspoken conviction. Late in the year many of our letter writers share another trait: they are reviewing the events of the year and choosing their candidates for TIME'S Man of the Year. One of these this year was Finbarr M. Slattery, who is known as "the divil to argue" in his native village, Asdee (pop. 250) in County Kerry, where the Shannon meets...
...Hungarians, or their descendants, who have made names for themselves: such musicians as Franz Liszt, Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly, Eugene Ormandy, Joseph Szigeti and Sigmund Romberg; such theatrical personalities as Alexander Korda, Ferenc Molnar, the Gabor sisters, Ilona Massey and Leslie Howard (real name: Arpad Steiner); such scientists as Nobel Prizewinner Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (discoverer of vitamin C) and Mathematician John Von Neumann; such public figures as David Lilienthal, onetime chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, H-bomb Pioneer Edward Teller, Socialist Eugene V. Debs...