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...Moscow Hospital No. 50 that day last January was Lev Davidovich Landau, 54, one of the world's greatest physicists. "Dau" was no ordinary patient, and he got no ordinary care. His friends unabashedly called for help from the free world. Canada's famed retired Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield flew from Montreal at a few hours' notice. The Moscow doctors had already opened Landau's skull, but could not be sure whether the major threat to his brain was a large blood mass or a multiplicity of hemorrhages. Should they operate further on Landau's brain...
...chairman of the committee which is organizing the conference is Amos N. Wilder. Hollis Professor of Divinity...
...Sweden for next month's ceremonies. But the great physicist is in a Moscow hospital, his memory still partially gone, his health still seriously impaired by the skull fracture and the eleven other bone breaks he suffered in an automobile accident nine months ago. Canadian Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield was flown in to join physicians from Russia, France and Czechoslovakia in the effort to keep Landau alive. For the Soviets hardly needed the Nobel committee to tell them the value of the man who not only helped make their first atom bomb, but has been an important part...
...self-respecting picturemaker would ever want to work for your company," Old Friend Billy Wilder wired. "The sooner the bulldozers raze your studio, the better it will be for the industry." Elizabeth Taylor, ailing in Paris with a throat infection, managed to whisper "disgraceful, degrading, particularly humiliating. Mr. Mankiewicz took over when
Magical Power. At first glance, the six objects of Wescott's literary affection-Katherine Anne Porter, Somerset Maugham, Colette. Isak Dinesen, Thomas Mann and Thornton Wilder-seem to have little in common. But all illustrate Wescott's passionate belief in the magical power of a story to hold those brooding truths about human behavior that cannot be abstracted as philosophy or illuminated in the swift lightning of poetic metaphor...