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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to Albert Szent-Györgyi, a peripatetic Hungarian who extracted a substance called ascorbic acid from adrenal glands and plants and later identified this acid with Vitamin C (TIME Nov. 8). Szent-Györgyi's long researches on carbohydrate metabolism and oxidation also counted with the committeemen, but that they were largely preoccupied with Vitamin C this year was shown when they split the Prize for Chemistry between Haworth of England who mapped the vitamin's complex molecular structure, and Karrer of Switzerland who synthesized it. The Index...
...result was that U. S. readers missed some excellent fiction and were taken by surprise when Roger Martin du Gard won the 1937 Nobel Prize for literature, which usually amounts to around $40,000, announced fortnight ago. In France seven of the projected ten novels of the cycle have been published, carrying the story to the outbreak of the War. Although they centre around the wealthy Thibault family, they have little in common with the long, naturalistic family chronicles, of which Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks is the prime example, that have become familiar to U. S. readers...
...crimes, her lack of all familiar human characteristics except greed. An oldfashioned, 400-page chronicle, slow-moving despite its many melodramatic episodes, Slogum House is set against the same brutal Nebraska-pioneer background pictured in Mari Sandoz' Old Jules, which won the Atlantic Monthly $5,000 Non-Fiction Prize in 1935. That unsparing biography of the author's father showed how he had been hardened by years of struggle against neighbors as mean as himself, quick-shooting cattlemen, sandstorms, dishonest politicians. It made hash of sentimental pioneer legends. But it presented a far kindlier version of life...
...HENRY MEMORIAL AWARD PRIZE STORIES OF 1937-Edited by Harry Hansen-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Collection of 21 stories, notable for Stephen Vincent Benet's modern folk tale, The Devil and Daniel Webster (first prize), for Robert Coates's violent story, The Fury (third prize), for first-rate examples of the work of William March, Jesse Stuart, Robert Penn Warren...
...Prize For Posters...