Swedish author Lagerkvist wins Nobel Prize for literature
Swedish author Paer Fabian Lagerkvist wins the 1951 Nobel Prize for literature for Barabbas. Ceremony by the Swedish Academy as awards pending in chemistry and physics. Chemistry likely to Seaborg and McMillan. physics to Thomson Winton and Clockcroft. Lagerkvist, 60, famed for The Invisiblebrock protest play. Barabbas published 1950, translated into eight languages, 70,000 copies sold in Sweden. In Korea British troops request letters home better washing and a beer ration.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Paer Fabian Lagervist
Barabbas
Christ
Lagerkvist
Swedish Academy
University of California
Glenn Seaborg
Edwin Mattison McMillan
Ernest Thomso Fintan Winton
Trinity College
Dublin
John Douglas Clockcroft
Britain
Atomic Energy Research Establishment
Harwell
Korea
Actress Denies Wife's Charge In Hollywood Case
Actress Janis Carter denies allegations by Carol Dietrich wife of Noah Dietrich RKO board chairman that she had intimate relations with him. Dietrich calls the suit shocking and blackmail while Mrs Dietrich seeks weekly support for herself and three children.
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Hollywood
Janis Carter
Noah Dietrich
RKO Board
Carol Dietrich
Carter
Pampa Votes On 575000 City Bond Issue
Voters in Pampa go to the polls to decide a 575000 bond package financed for city improvements. The four propositions total 323000 for water and street work 231000 for sewer and park upgrades 21 000. A 70 member citizen committee urged the election.
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Pampa
City Commission
Seek a Buyer for RFC Financed Tahoe Hotel
The Reconstr uction Finance Corporation announces sale of the Tahoe Biltmore Hotel, a million-dollar luxury hotel, bar and gambling casino at Lake Tahoe. RFC foreclosed in 1949 after the venture failed, seeking to recover about $265,000 invested. The property has remained closed since.
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Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Lake Tahoe
RFC
Tahoe-Biltmore
Virginia Rites for Marceron's Mother
Funeral services for Mrs. Charles Zimmerman mother of Jack Marceron of 3402 Hayden will be held at 2 tomorrow in Georgetown Virginia Mr and Mrs Marceron have gone to attend the services Mrs Zimmerman died Tuesday night She had visited in Amarillo with her son and with Mrs Marceron s parents Mr and Mrs George Thomas 911 North Polk
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Charles Zimmerman
Jack Marceron
Hayden
Georgetown
Marceron
Billion for new housing across United States in 1951 loans
Approximately a billion dollars of the money lent by savings associations in the United States from January to September 1951 was for new housing construction.
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Washington
United States
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