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...Soviet reader were asked to name his favorite U. S. author he would probably say John Dos Passes. If the same question were put to a Swede, the first name off his tongue would doubtless be that Nobel Prizeman Sinclair Lewis. But such a loyal Swede would have in mind Author Lewis' earlier, better books (Main Street, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry). With such a second-rate novel as Work of Art following hard on the heels of his mediocre Ann Vickers (TIME, Jan. 30, 1933), readers of any nationality can see with half an eye that Sinclair Lewis is slipping...
...Prizeman Werner Heisenberg of the University of Leipzig is a self-assured young German who enjoys his scientific prestige as much as he does playing the piano. His father is Professor of Medieval & Modern Greek at the University of Munich; an uncle is a Manhattan braid manufacturer. He has visited the U. S. twice, went home the first time by way of Japan. On one of his visits a Columbia physicist complimented him gracefully on the contrast between his youth and his achievements. Replied Dr. Heisenberg: "You know what they call the new physics in Germany? They call...
...Thompson Boone, President Hoover's physician, the Purple Heart medal (recently revived Revolutionary award for war service) and the Silver Star medal; Radiologist Leon Menville, the gold medal of the Radiological Society of North America for applying Roentgen ray examination to the lymphatic system in cancer work; Nobel Prizeman Prince Louis de Broglie, the 100,000-franc ($3,900) Prince of Monaco grand prix of the French Academy of Sciences, for work in theoretical physics...
...Lucius Cross, with the Montclair Yale Bowl, as a Yaleman who has "won his Y in life"; Dr. George E. Hale, honorary director of the Mount Wilson Observatory (Pasadena, Calif.), by the British Royal Society's Copley Medal, for work on the sun's magnetic field; Nobel Prizeman Dr. Fritz Haber, by the Royal Society's Rumford Medal, for work in thermodynamics; Munich Professor Richard Willstatter by the Davy Medal, for organic chemistry researches; Cambridge Professor Dr. James Chadwick, by the Hughes Medal, for demonstrating the existence of neutrons (TIME, March...
Honored. Mrs. Elias Compton, by an LL. D. from Western College for Women (Oxford, Ohio) for being mother of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's President Karl Taylor Compton, Nobel Prizeman Arthur Holly Compton of Chicago and Economist Wilson Martindale Compton; Dr. Roberts Andrews Millikan (cosmic ray opponent of Arthur Holly Compton), by the Outstanding Service medal of the Roosevelt Memorial Association; Journalist Walter Lippmann, by appointment as Chancellor of Union College (Schenectady, N. Y.); Author Stephen Vincent Benét, by $500 first prize in the O. Henry Memorial Prize for a story, "An End to Dreams...