Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laid up with a virus infection at his winter home in Pinehurst. N.C.. General of the Armies George Catlett Marshall, 72, got some news better than any medicine. After 52 years of Nobel awards, five Norwegian politicians picked Old Soldier Marshall as the first professional military man ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The 1953 award (a tax-free $33.954) went to him for a civilian achievement: his prime-mover's role as author of the Marshall Plan, which has helped Western Europe's ravaged economies through postwar convalescence. At week's end Marshall flew...
Last week, for their obscure work in cryptic processes of vast practical importance to medicine, Biochemists Lipmann (54) and Krebs (53) won fame and rich reward. They were picked to receive the 1953 Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology and share...
...grew reminiscent. "I notice that the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize was Mr. Rudyard Kipling, and that another equally rewarded was Mr. Bernard Shaw... I knew them both quite well, and my thought was much more in accord with Mr. Rudyard Kipling. On the other hand, Mr. Rudyard Kipling never thought much of me, whereas Mr. Bernard Shaw* often expressed himself in the most flattering terms...
...Allah! I have no relations now. Why didn't you leave me one person?" Sixty-six died that night; eleven from one family, ten of another. It was the bloodiest night of border warfare since the 1949 armistice-the armistice that won Dr. Ralph Bunche the Nobel Peace Prize, but brought no peace...
...Hammarskjold, 91, statesman-father of the United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold; in Stockholm. As Sweden's Premier during World War I, he shaped his country's traditional neutrality policy, and later, as chairman of the multimillion-dollar foundation (1929-47), annually presided over the awarding of Nobel Prizes...