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Died. Luigi Pirandello, 69, metaphysical playwright, member of the Italian Academy, winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature; of pneumonia; in Rome. A spry, goat-bearded poet, novelist and schoolteacher, he turned to playwriting at 50, achieved fame in 1920 with Six Characters in Search of an Author. Believing life "a very sad piece of buffoonery," he constructed his unrealistic plots to prove that "nothing is true and anything might be." At his death, unpredictable Playwright Pirandello was finishing a volume to be called Memories of My Involuntary Sojourn on Earth...
Sublime Conceit Sirs: In the interest of the record, and in order to save future historians much time, trouble and travail, will TIME, "the ablest historian of our day," search out the facts and report, definitely and unequivocally if possible, on the question of who first uttered that sublime conceit, "As goes Maine, so goes Vermont." MORRIS FREEDMAN Hollywood, Calif...
Last week Washington's alert Science Service, browsing among the patent files, discovered that in his long search for a Unified Field Theory the great mathematician had not forgotten the uses of photoelectric cells. Patent No. 2,058,562, it appeared, had been issued to Dr. Albert Einstein and Gustav Bucky. Manhattan X-ray researcher, for an automatic device to prevent unskilled photographers from under-or over-exposing their plates.* A photoelectric cell attached to the camera measures the quantity of illumination available, adjusts a screen of varying transparency so that the proper amount of light is admitted...
...reason that Mormonism appeals to a man in search of a religion is that its priesthood is vast, every male communicant in good standing belonging to its higher or lower division depending upon whether he is 21 or younger. There are also plenty of Mormon offices. Chicago's Stake was divided last week into four wards, three in the city, one in Milwaukee, each directed by an elected bishop and two counselors. Elected Stake President was President William A. Matheson of Rollaway Bed Corp. Chicago Mormons are eligible for office in the Mormon agencies which cement the Church...
...leave of absence from his boss, Lord Beaverbrook. But that Napoleonic publisher, who had read Lockhart's account of his youthful indiscretion with Amai, betrayed that hushed sentimentality that seems as much a British characteristic as muddling through. "I suppose," he wrote, "that you are going in search of the little wooden shoes." This referred to Lockhart's description of his separation from Amai, when his last glimpse had been of her little wooden shoes outside his bungalow. So, in 1935, in company with Lord & Lady Rosslyn, Lord Rendlesham, Lord & Lady Pembroke, Miss Dorothy Round and several others...