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DIED. Robert B. Woodward, 62, a Harvard professor for four decades who won the 1965 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work in organic synthesis; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. A child prodigy who experimented in his basement lab at home, Woodward entered M.I.T. at 16, got his B.S. at 19 and Ph.D. at 20. In 1937 he joined the Harvard faculty and in 1944 synthesized the antimalarial drug quinine, a project he had worked on since his teens. He then synthesized cholesterol, cortisone, several antibiotics and chlorophyll and, in 1972, vitamin B12, at that time the most...
...American Book Awards cannot ignore serious writing. But as in a children's summer camp, there will be a prize for nearly everyone. In addition to the standard awards for the best novel and verse, there will be recognition for jacket designs and paperback covers. To reduce further the chance of disappointment, the academy assures its sponsors that a book that does not win in hardback will be eligible to compete in paperback categories the following year...
...Broadway's biggest hits, including Dracula, Deathtrap and Dancin'. His replacement is the paper's Sunday theater scribe Walter Kerr, 66, who joined the Times in 1966 after 15 years at the Herald Tribune, and is the only drama reviewer ever to win a Pulitzer Prize for criticism (1978). As head of the newly combined Sunday and daily theater staff, Kerr will contribute twice a month to the Sunday culture section and produce two reviews during the week...
Woodward received his Nobel Prize for his work on the art of organic synthesis and the "development and application of new techniques to a degree that no one had ever done before," Blout said...
...true genius I have ever known," Blout said. "He had a clarity of thinking and an ability to see to an objective that is the characteristic of true genius. It is quite possible that if he had lived he would have won or shared a second Nobel Prize...