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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago has no War memorial. Planning one, the city offered a $20,000 prize for a design. Last week, Rotarians were startled to read in their monthly magazine The Rotarian, some suggestions by Chicago War Hero Harold R. ("Private") Peat, "winner of more than one medal for distinguished service." Neither an artist nor an architect, Hero Peat's interest in a War memorial was not esthetic but moral. Said...
Awarded. To Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, 58 this month, member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (Manhattan); onetime (1917-25) Johns Hopkins professor, the Pictorial Review's $5,000 prize for "The most distinctive contribution to American life in the fields of Arts, Letters or The Sciences" in 1928. Only woman member of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Sabin directs the testing of chemical substances isolated from the tubercule bacillus to discover their separate effects in order to analyze each factor of the disease itself...
...citizen has ever won the Nobel Prize for Literature.* Last week's award did not break the 28-year-old rule. The Swedish Academy of Letters picked Germany's great Thomas Mann...
...award was a relief. For at least a decade even the Swedish press has been asking. "Why not Mann?" In 1925, after his name had been most prominently mentioned, the Swedish Academy, with the old-maidish perversity for which it is famed, withheld the prize for a year, finally awarded it to George Bernard Shaw. Last week's amends were handsome. This year the prizes bequeathed by the late Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the Swede who invented dynamite, are larger than ever before. Thomas Mann will...
Through the saga of the Buddenbrooks clatters the Manns' ancient family coach. Their medievally faithful servant, Ida Jungmann, tended Thomas. He published Buddenbrooks in 1901, the year of the first Nobel Prize, which he did not win. For almost three decades Buddenbrooks has been constantly in press, still sells in Germany at the rate of 4,000 copies yearly, was brought out in the U. S. by Knopf...