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Between 1901 and 1933 the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded 31 times. Italy was honoured twice,* playwrights seven times.* Each of these categories was upped one day last week when the Swedish Academy singled out Italian Playwright Luigi Pirandello to receive $41,318 of the late, dynamite-making Alfred Bernhard Nobel's money and the distinction of being Literary...
Coach Bernie Bierman of Minnesota allowed his team to give up the stratagem of kicking on second down through the first half, making no effort to score until the second. Result: a crushing victory over Indiana, 30-to-0, in which Minnesota scored twice in the first quarter, outrushed its opponents...
Only major team in the U. S. unbeaten and untied for two years, Princeton warmed up for Yale against Lehigh. Halfback Garrett Benjamin ("Garry") LeVan, benched with a bad knee earlier this season, showed he was completely hale again by scoring twice in the first period. In the second, with LeVan on the sidelines. Princeton made three touchdowns in four plays. By the time the game was over, Coach Crisler had used three full teams. Score of Princeton's 15th straight victory...
...Gatti was in no mood for such reminiscences last week. His pride was hurt. The $1,000,000 surplus had been eaten by Depression. The Metropolitan directors, under Chairman Cravath, had twice voted to beg publicly for money. Their appeals had brought forth life-saving cash but also sharp criticism of Gatti's administration: he was oldfashioned; he was a reactionary, a slave to routine; he was unwilling to experiment with new ideas for scenery and staging...
Britain. British hotels also had a better year than last. With sterling cheap, tourist traffic was up 20,000 for the season, excluding the heavy week-end trade from normally stay-at-home gold-bloc countries like France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland. Visiting U. S. tourists remained twice as long as in previous years. Despite rate reductions to accommodate dollar travelers, the Savoy in London took in 35% more from room rent than...