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...Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 60, Hungarian-born refugee from both Nazism and Communism, was named 1954 winner of the $1,000 Albert Lasker Award of the American Heart Association. His brilliant researches into what muscle is and how it works (TIME, July 4, 1949) "have led to new understanding of the basic physiology of the heart," said his citation...
...highest Italian war decoration); of a lung ailment; in Rome. In December 1917, Rizzo and a small commando force sneaked into Trieste's harbor, cut the torpedo nets, then returned with small boats to sink Austria's battleship Wien, next year equaled the feat by torpedoing the Szent-Istvan...
Paprika & Disguises. Szent-Gyorgyi, now 55, grey-haired and dynamic, won his Nobel Prize in 1937 for isolating vitamin C (ascorbic acid) from the plants of one of Hungary's favorite vegetables, paprika. As Nazi influence grew in Hungary, he found that his research was a handy cover for underground anti-Nazi work. One of his cloak & dagger jobs was carrying a secret letter to the British legation in Istanbul on the pretense of having to give a scientific lecture in Turkey. When the Gestapo got too close on his trail, he went completely underground disguised...
When the Russians came, Szent-Gyorgyi thought at first that they might bring democracy. He was elected to Parliament as one of the ten "cultural representatives" provided for in the new constitution. Says he, with scientific understatement: "After two years I became disappointed and left my country." He delights in showing in pantomime the differences between Nazi and Communist techniques-the clomping, hobnail boot approach of the Nazis, the sly sneakup of the Communists...
Happy in the U.S., Szent-Gyorgyi has taken out first papers for naturalization. He plans to keep on looking for the final answer to the action of muscle, "the most wonderful material to analyze the basic principles of life...