Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fortifying himself against Tokyo's 95° heat with gin and tonics, Nobel Prize-winning Author William (A Fable) Faulkner, on his first visit to Japan as a star attraction of the State Department's Cultural Exchange Program, candidly entertained Japanese and U.S. newsmen at a one-hour pressoiree. Asked if he is now penciling a novel. Mississippi Squire Faulkner harrumphed: "No. I have reached the age now (57) when I work only when the weather is bad." Why did he write Sanctuary? 'I wanted a horse, and I heard that people were making money by writing...
...received the Nobel Peace Prize for his early efforts toward the establishment of the United Nations. But after eleven years of office he was exhausted. In a moment of awful weariness he confided that he had come to feel that he was picking up endless lighted fuses and tamping them out. He resigned in November 1944 after nearly twelve years in office, longer than any other Secretary of State. (His successor: Edward Stettinius...
...scientists asked to sign the statement, only nine (including Russell and Einstein) did so. Communist Curie signed only after making a reservation to the effect that revolutions should not be included in the renunciation. Among the scientists who refused to sign were eight Nobel Prizewinners, including Niels Bohr of Denmark and Arthur H. Compton and Harold C. Urey of the U.S., who apparently were devoting their interest to science...
Cincinnati's respected Dr. Albert Sabin (TIME, May 23), long the foremost critic of vaccines made (like Salk's) of inactivated virus, urged that both production and inoculation be stopped until the vaccine can be made consistently safe.* He was supported by men of impressive professional caliber: Nobel Prizewinner John F. Enders of Boston's Children's Medical Center and Dr. William McD. Hammon, an epidemiologist who rubs elbows with Dr. Salk at the University of Pittsburgh...
...script is by a battery of writers headed by Nobel Prizewinner William Faulkner, but he is probably not responsible for the film's prize anachronistic line: when the high priest recoils from villainous Joan Collins, she snaps back in British accents with the devastating Bronx locution: "The feeling is mutual...