Word: prize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Post Home News (circ. 385,151), which has 25 columnists already, last week added one more. The newcomer: Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr., 31, who won a Pulitzer prize for his Age of Jackson (TIME, Oct. 22, 1945), is now at work on the Age of Franklin D. Roosevelt. An associate professor of history at Harvard, Schlesinger is writing a weekly column from the vantage point of a "historian looking at the news...
Disorganized & Leisurely. Last week Dr. Schweitzer took no part in the Goethe festival, but waited in Manhattan, working on his address and resting. Though Poet-Philosopher Goethe is one of his favorite subjects (in 1928 he received the city of Frankfurt's Goethe Prize*), he had not really wanted to come to the U.S. When he went from Lambarene to Giinsbach last October for a visit, he found at least six invitations to address Goethe bicentennial events, but he was so tired that he refused them all. Then from the University of Chicago's Chancellor Robert Hutchins, chairman...
Paprika & Disguises. Szent-Gyorgyi, now 55, grey-haired and dynamic, won his Nobel Prize in 1937 for isolating vitamin C (ascorbic acid) from the plants of one of Hungary's favorite vegetables, paprika. As Nazi influence grew in Hungary, he found that his research was a handy cover for underground anti-Nazi work. One of his cloak & dagger jobs was carrying a secret letter to the British legation in Istanbul on the pretense of having to give a scientific lecture in Turkey. When the Gestapo got too close on his trail, he went completely underground disguised...
System. In Joliet, Ill., Otis Wendling, a prize safe driver for ten years, revealed that good driving is easy: the trick is to "drive defensively, as if other drivers are dangerous maniacs...
...Hard-digging Reporter Malcolm Johnson won a Pulitzer Prize for his carefully documented series of stories...