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...show last week, Affandi was still a little fidgety about all the attention he was getting. He had never been out of Java until three years ago, and in the next few months, he will travel to Paris. Rome, Stockholm and the U.S. with his paintings. When he gets home, he wants to start an art school for native painters, but first he wants to look around a bit and see what the Western world has been doing in art. "If I'd never left Java," he says, "I would never have seen where I stand as a painter...
Purcell's greatest ordeal is yet to come. Last Saturday he left by plane for Stockholm, Sweden, where King Gustav Adolf will give him a medal, a scroll, and a monetary reward during the week-long celebration for Nobel Prize winners. "Bridgman (Physics Nobel Prize in 1946) has told the pretty well what to expect; it will be quite an affair. It's been so frantic around here I don't know if I'm excited , but I must admit I'll be glad to get away--after all you don't get the unless you go to Sweden...
Died. Sven Anders Hedin, 87, Swedish author-explorer (The Silk Road, Riddles of the Gobi Desert) who did more than anyone since Marco Polo to unveil the geographical mysteries of Central Asia; of cerebral inflammation; in Stockholm. He retraced the ancient silk routes from Cathay to Tyre and, in a series of expeditions covering half a century (1885-1935), put names and colors into blank areas of Asian atlases. At home on Asia's plains, he often got lost in the jungle of closer-to-home politics. A fervent admirer of Hitler ("one of the greatest men in world...
...prizes will be presented by Guatsav Adolph VI, king of Sweden, in ceremonies at Stockholm Wednesday. Purcell shares this year's prize in physics with Stanford's Felix Bloch. Both simultaneously developed methods for measuring magnetic forces in atomic nuclei...
...While in Stockholm, Purcell will deliver a paper before a group of Swedish scientists. He will be accompanied on the trip by his wife...