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...watch Frederick deliver the "betrothal kiss," of which every Scandinavian paper last week published pictures. Frederick's 55-year-old mother Queen Alexandrine of Denmark last week accompanied him to Stockholm. At this intense moment Queen Alexandrine was stricken with appendicitis and intestinal strangulation. Scandinavian Press "halted popular rejoicing," held its breath until the Queen came safely out of an operation...
...Stockholm fastidious King Gustaf V, who hates and fears the Bolsheviks across the Baltic, could rejoice at all sorts of prosperous indexes as he snapped on his sapphire cuff links, his dainty wrist watch and his gold snake bracelet. Stockholm editors now speak of Depression as something definitely passed. Registered unemployment is down from the peak of 187,000 at this time last year to 53,000. Taking 100 as the measure of Swedish production in 1929, it is up from 79 during 1932 to 101 today. Typical of pleasant surprises, to which Swedes are now growing accustomed...
...Peace Prize last week, announced that he was "too busy"to come to Oslo for his $44,338, had it accepted for him by the British Minister to the Kingdom of Nor way, trusty Cecil F. J. Dormer. Nobel prizes other than Peace are awarded in Stockholm. Last week on the same day that Norway's Crown Prince Olaf watched Premier Mowinckel award Mr. Henderson in Oslo, King Gustaf V of Sweden awarded the other Nobel winners: Literature, scrubby-bearded Italian Dramatist Luigi Pirandello (TIME, Nov. 19); Medicine, split between three U. S. physicians, Drs. George Richards Minot, William...
After a spokesman delivers an address in the new, Stockholm Concert House, telling why the awards in each academy are made, the king will bestow upon the winners the embossed diploma, gold medal, and check, emblems of the prize. At a dinner in the evening, the winners make informal speeches, while later in the week they attend a banquet given in the royal palace...
...Someone brought into his office on Columbia University's campus a woodcock captured on a windowsill of the chemistry building. Dr. Urey suggested the bird be taken out of the city and freed in the woods. He was in a jovial mood. Word had just arrived from Stockholm that he had been awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize for Chemistry...