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...produce it, he drew on the ideas of others, as he often did, though he gave them no credit. After experimenting with any number of materials, he hit on carbon. He tried to give the impression that he came up with that idea independently. In fact, says Biographer Conot, his laboratory notebooks prove that he read and underlined reports of the experiments of Joseph Swan in England. Swan had invented an electric bulb that used a fine carbon...
...selection of the 1979 winners divided the house of Sweden's Karolinska Institute. The 15-member Nobel Selection Committee had sifted through nominees and sent a name or names to the full 54-member Nobel Assembly, but that choice was overturned after a lengthy debate. Though no rejected names were divulged, the schism was apparently an ideological one: some institute members insisted that winners be confined to scientists engaged in basic research, while others felt that achievements in medical technology should also be considered. The choice of the CAT-scanner pioneers seemed a perfect compromise. Their work with abstract...
...certain that any of the mysteries Mailer touches upon are worth this huge effort. Still, his mastery of detail is superb. The story has its startling, bizarre touches: Gilmore's father, it seems, was the illegitimate son of Houdini. Gilmore himself remains a punk, though a moderately interesting one. He spent more than half of his life in jail, and, like other intelligent prisoners, had a routine. He could con intellectuals and other innocents on the outside who tend to be fascinated by violent criminals-literate ones-in the same way that Gladstone was fascinated by prostitutes. Gilmore used...
...established Poet Marianne Moore. After graduation, she began a life of wandering that included stays in Mexico, Europe, North Africa and Brazil, her home for 18 years. Precise observations of her adopted lands, reflected in a personal but distanced eye, figured large in her lean, immaculately wrought poetry. Though revered by fellow writers, Bishop was not widely known: her Complete Poems, which won a National Book Award in 1970, comprises a single, 200-page volume...
DIED. Jaya Prakash Narayan, 76, Indian independence fighter who for 50 years wielded great political and moral influence in his country, though he never held public office; of heart disease; in Patna, India. Born in a small village, Narayan studied in the U.S. for seven years, supporting himself as a fruit picker while, he later said, drinking "deep at the fountain of Marxism." On returning to India in 1929, he joined Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru in the struggle to liberate India from British colonial rule and was repeatedly jailed as an agitator. After independence in 1947, Narayan was heir...