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Reeling off a list of "our giants," Prizeman Lewis seemed to place three first...
...speech Mr. & Mrs. Lewis woke up in their hotel, blinked at two Swedish maidens wearing crowns of lighted candles. Known as "Lucia Brides," they served coffee, an old Swedish custom observed in the dawn each Dec. 13. Sensing that a photographer had sneaked into the room to flashlight the prizeman & wife in bed, pajama-clad Mr. Lewis tusseled with the fellow, threw...
...Princeton, N. J., Dr. van Dyke observed: "Who would be so unkind as to interrupt the bubbling joy of the author of Elmer Gantry in receiving the Nobel Prize?" Prizeman Lewis had hoped that Dr. van Dyke would not "demand the landing of U. S. Marines at Stockholm to protect American literary rights." Princeton's patriarch rejoined: "Why send the marines to Stockholm to interfere with the Babbitt? Just tell it to them...
Last week Film Censor Dr. Seeger officially banned All Quiet's exhibition in Germany. Despite denials from the Censor's office, correspondents immediately jumped to the conclusion that mice and snakes, and Hitlerite riots were responsible. So did most Germans. Said Heinrich Mann, brother of Nobel Prizeman Thomas Mann...
...energy∙... to extract the maximum of satisfaction to the race of our present reserves of energy." When coal and oil are gone, Science will turn to sunlight as man's source of energy. Reassuring to the insurance presidents was it to hear Caltech's Millikan, Nobel Prizeman of 1923, student of the Cosmic Ray and of subatomic energy (both of which he rules out as practical energy sources for mankind) declare: "Only the economic reason that coal and oil and gas are abundant and accessible prevents us from utilizing sunshine directly...