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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Virtually certain to win a future Nobel Peace Prize award would be the statesman-conjurer who could persuade both sides of the 23-month-old Spanish Civil War to lay down their arms and peacefully mediate their differences. Last week Great Britain's peace-talking Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, slyly let it be known through "authoritative" sources that he was considering waving a magic wand in that direction...
...award of his estate's residue to the Toronto woman who, in ten years after his death, would prove to be the city's champion child-producer. A bachelor, Mr. Millar was not experienced enough to foresee a tie. After 17 months of legal haggling, the prize money of Toronto's famed "stork derby" was awarded last week. Four buxom, prolific, poor mothers, each having produced nine children during the ten-year period, split the money between them, received checks for $100,000 each. Out of this one mother must return to the Toronto Relief Administration...
...feathered by an exclusive interview with President Roosevelt in February, Krock won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize in his field. Washington writer since 1909, he is regarded as an especially well-qualified interpreter of latest national developments...
...Riskin (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, Lost Horizon). Last fiscal year (June 26) unpretentious Columbia cleared a profit of $1,317,771. Of next season's schedule of 40 films, high spot will probably be Director Capra's production of the 1936 Pulitzer Prize play, You Can't Take It With...
Anna Christie (Thurs. 10 p.m.. NBC-Blue). Eugene O'Neill's coal-barge classic revived in a short version for the Pulitzer Prize radio series...