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...qualify for the Nobel prize a writer needs an international reputation, a large body of work and a grey frost of years. It also helps if his country has not received an award for some time, because the Academicians at Stockholm like to strike a delicate balance between diplomacy and recognition of literary merit. Once it decided that Italy was due for an award, the Nobel Prize Committee was of necessity limited in its choice to four men: Poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, Estheticist Benedetto Croce, Historian Guglielmo Ferrero, Playwright Pirandello. Drama lovers the world over were highly pleased...
...George R. Minot '08, professor of Medicine at Harvard sailed yesterday on the S. S. New York for Stockholm, where he and Dr. William P. Murphy '20, also of Harvard, will receive jointly the Nobel medical price...
Born. To Prince Gustaf Adolf, 28, eldest son of Sweden's Crown Prince, and Princess Sibylle of the house of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: a daughter; in Stockholm. Name: Margaretha Desiree Victoria. Tall, tennis-playing King Gustaf is the only great-grandfather among Europe's reigning kings...
...years ago Sculptor Carl Milles, recalling this familiar legend, won a competition with a sketch of a fountain to be placed in front of Stockholm's Concert Hall. Last week Carl Milles had finished the last of the plaster models of his Orpheus group. He and they were on their way to Stockholm where the models will be cast in dark green bronze. The fountain will be completed...
...fold of respectability (TIME, Oct. 1). Straightway King Gustaf, by no complicated chain of associations, thought of the Aland Islands. The Aland Archipelago in the elbow of the Baltic Sea separating Sweden and Finland is the ticklish spot in Sweden's naval strategy. Overlooking the harbor of Stockholm, the Alands are some 300 sandy, stony little islands and one big one. They are full of Swedes but, after 600 years of being passed around among Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Russia, they now belong to Finland. They were heavily fortified by the Russian Tsars and in the closing years...