W.H. Taft, Former U.S.
President And Chief Justice Of The Supreme Court, Dies;President Hoover Approves
Smoot-Hawley High Tariff; Congress Creates Veterans Administration;
Literature, Theater: Marc Connelly, "Green Pastures," Pulitzer Prize
Drama; Arthur Conan Doyle, English Novelist, Dies; T.S. Elliot: "Ash Wednesday";
William Faulkner: "As I Lay Dying"; Sinclair Lewis: "Babbitt" Nobel
Prize For Literature; Bestseller: "Cimarron" by Edna Ferber;
Religion, Philosophy, Learning; Albert Einstein: "About Zionism", Sigmund Freud:
"Civilization And Its Discontents"; C.S. Johnson: "The Negro In American
Civilization"; Leon Trotsky: "Autobiography";
Visual Arts: Max Beckman: "Self Portrait With Saxophone," Expressionism; Henri
Matisse: "Tiare"; Films: "Blue Angel" (Marlene Dietrich); "All
Quiet On The Western Front" Academy Award;
"Anna Christie" (Greta Garbo); "Murder" (Hitchcock);
Music: Popular Songs: "Georgia On My Mind"; "I got Rhythm";
"Three Little Words"; "Time On My Hands"; "Walkin' My Baby Back
Home"; "Body and Soul";
Science: Nobel Prize For Medicine, Karl Landsteiner (U.S.), For Grouping Of Human Blood;
Planet Pluto Discovered By C.W. Tombaugh; Glenn Curtiss, American Inventor And Aviator,
Dies;
Daily Life: Contract Bridge Gains In Popularity As a Card Game; Comic Strips Grow In
Popularity In U.S. ("Blondie" Series); Photoflash Bulb Comes Into Use;
Statistics: U.S. Population 122 Million; Youth Hostel Association Founded in Great Britain |
