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Nazis v. Nazarenes. As exiled Nobel Prizeman Thomas Mann said last week: "There can be no real peace between the cross and the swastika. National socialism is essentially unchristian and antichristian. . . ." Though the conflict between Christianity and Naziism seems inevitable now, it did not seem so when Hitler came into power. Catholics and Protestants alike helped his coup d'état. Martin Niemoller himself supported him. And one of Hitler's first acts as Chancellor was to declare: "In the two Christian creeds lie the most important factors for the preservation of the German people." Only in secret...
Declining the Vichy Government's proffered exemption from its rule that all Jews must surrender State positions, tiny, 81-year-old Philosopher Henri Bergson, member of the French Academy, Nobel Prizeman, author of the theory of creative evolution, resigned from the faculty of the College de France, where he had lectured since...
...Prizeman. Among the recipients of prizes and other honors awarded by the Academy was none other than forthright FBI Chief John Edgar Hoover, nemesis of kidnappers, hero of gangbusters, night club celebrity, target of Ogpu-frightened critics. Mr. Hoover got the Academy's Public Welfare Medal, for applying scientific methods to crime detection. Said he handsomely: "I accept this medal not for myself alone but also as a tribute to my associates...
...conquest of a crucial technical obstacle-as when Corning Glass Works succeeded in casting a 20-ton glass disc for Caltech's 200-inch telescope. Or it may be a crucial matter of dollars. Last week University of California's Ernest Orlando Lawrence, newest U. S. Nobel Prizeman, passed such a turning point when it was disclosed that the Rockefeller Foundation would give him $1,150,000 to smash atoms as atoms have never been smashed before...
...always holds in breeding a dominant to a recessive. At the dawn of the 20th Century, Mendel's laws were dug up and made the basis of the science of genetics, which was also boosted through experiments on fruit flies by Thomas Hunt Morgan, now a venerable Nobel Prizeman at California Institute of Technology...