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...Quasimodo was quite pleased by the honor (value: $42,606) that shocked Italy's literary world. But even in his hour of triumph, he found a moment to demean the merit of Soviet Author Boris (Doctor Zhiuago) Pasternak, reluctant rejecter of last year's Nobel award. Huffed Nobelman Quasimodo: "Pasternak is as far from this generation as the moon is from us." Quasimodo is an expert of sorts on lunar matters: after the U.S.S.R. launched its first satellite in 1957, he turned out an ode titled The New Moon for Italy's Communist daily L'Unita...
...Danish equivalent of a Nobel award and worth about $14,250), plus some $35,625 in other windfall gifts that will be applied to his famed jungle hospital in Gabon, central Africa. That evening, at a state banquet in Copenhagen's Christian-borg Castle, Dr. Schweitzer met another Nobelman, Denmark's aging (74) Atomic Physicist Niels Bohr, for the first time. Seated together, the two talked seriously, reportedly found themselves in complete agreement that nuclear test explosions should be stopped...
Orphaned at the Marne. The successful Nobelman was born in the Algerian village of Mondovi, the son of a poor artisan. Orphaned at ten months by the Battle of the Marne, Camus never saw his French father, spent his sou-less boyhood in Algiers with his Spanish mother. Working his way towards a philosophy degree at the University of Algiers, young Camus was invalided by a bout with TB, which may have stimulated his lifelong preoccupation with death. He recovered completely, as he did from a brief bout with the Communist virus contracted at about the same time...
Testified famed Cardiologist Paul Dudley White: "Massachusetts has become a laughingstock because of its resistance to the removal of this handicap which threatens to stifle further advance in medicine and surgery.'' Nobelman John F. Enders spoke up for the bill. State Senator Philip G. ("Bow-wow") Bowker, 57, of Brookline declaimed: "It's a disgrace to tie the hands of medical researchers. I have two incurable diseases† in my body, but they are controlled because of animal experimentation. If it were not for that, I would be six feet underground...
...home in Cuba, Author Ernest Hemingway was mad enough to fight a duel over an affair of honor. A shabby tale, widely spread by prattling European magazines, was depicting Papa as the very worst kind of literary thief. Nobelman Hemingway, went the yarn, had promised a poor Cuban fisherman a new boat in exchange for the old man's own true sea stories, from which Papa then drew his famed novelette, The Old Man and the Sea. With callous ingratitude, he had never even thanked his pitiful source of such profitable material. When the ugly canard, headed "Old Miguel...