October 16, 1963 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day

Card from Dr. and Mrs. Frederic A. Gibbs to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at top right: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h3, Folder #1963h3.7]

Card from Norma Litman to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: Litman’s address and “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h4, Folder #1963h4.5]

Check from AHP to Arthur Heimann and Sons RE: $2.08. [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP October 22, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]

Check from AHP to Henry and Hodges RE: $7.00. [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP November 18, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #28.1]

Check from AHP to Pacific Telephone RE: $49.81. [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP November 18, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #28.1]

Check from AHP to U.F.S.J., Los Angeles Chapter RE: $6.00. [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP November 18, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #28.1]

Handwritten letter from Albert Maltz to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h4, Folder #1963h4.6]

Handwritten letter from Billie Token to LP Re: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Says that the Times editorial was offensive. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h5, Folder #1963h5.6]

Handwritten letter from Bob and Joan Wright to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at top right: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h6, Folder #1963h6.2]

Handwritten letter from Deane Goldman to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h3, Folder #1963h3.7]

Handwritten letter from Dr. Kenneth Pahuer to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at top right: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h5, Folder #1963h5.2]

Handwritten letter from Hjordis Samuelsen to Mrs. Dockhorn & family RE: Is happy that LP has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by Mrs. Dockhorn at top left: “Thought you would like to see this letter form a war friend in Oslo.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h3, Folder #1963h3.4]

Handwritten letter from Jerry Loviet to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h4, Folder #1963h4.5]

Handwritten letter from June Brown to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h3, Folder #1963h3.2]

Handwritten letter from Mrs. Ida K. Langman to LP RE: On behalf of the Philadelphia branch of WILPF, congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h4, Folder #1963h4.5]

Handwritten letter from Professor Oscar Rice, University of North Carolina, to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h5, Folder #1963h5.3]

Handwritten letter from Richard Oeljen to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Asks if LP would send him a short letter. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h5, Folder #1963h5.1]

Handwritten note from Professor Ed Tatum, The Rockefeller Institute, to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d orally.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h5, Folder #1963h5.6]

Letter form H. Amorim Ferreira, President, Academia Das Ciencias De Lisboa, to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Invites LP to send a paper on a subject of his choosing to the University in Lisbon. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h3, Folder #1963h3.6]

Letter form Olga Poblete to LP RE: (In Spanish) Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h3, Folder #1963h3.5]

Letter from B. Osbury Haller to Editor, Spokesman-Review, RE: Discuses his opinions on political issues, the question of war, and economics. Commends LP’s book, No More War! [Filed under LP Correspondence:(H: Correspondence, 1963) #169.1]

Letter from B. Osbury Haller to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Apologizes for calling LP an “overeducated fool” during their last meeting. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h4, Folder #1963h4.1]

Letter from Bertil Svahnström to LP RE: Congratulates LP on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize and invites him to speak at a public meeting in Stockholm. Encloses the latest issue of Freden in which is published LP’s introduction to Manstein’s book. [Letter from LP to Svahnström October 28, 1963] [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Materials re: Nobel Peace Prize, 1963), Box #1963h2, Folder #1963h2.2]

Letter from Canadian Foundation for Education in World Law to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Thinks that world law, rather than international law, is needed to accomplish world peace. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h3, Folder #1963h3.3]

Letter from Clarence E. Pickett, to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h5, Folder #1963h5.2]

Letter from Clark Foreman, Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Encloses an editorial. Handwritten note by LP in right margin: “York Gazette + Daily.” Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h3, Folder #1963h3.6]

Letter from David Martin, Executive Secretary, The Royal Society, to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h4, Folder #1963h4.6]

Letter from Dr. Otto Bastiansen to LP RE: Bastiansen thanks LP for the typescript and states that he looks forward to seeing him and AHP in December. [Letter from LP to Bastiansen October 10, 1963] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: (Manuscripts and Typescripts of Articles by LP, 1963), Box #1963a2, Folder #1963a2.3]

Letter from Dr. P. K. P. Murugaiyan, Rukumani Memorial Ayurvedic & Homeo Free Dispensary, to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Asks for any contribution that LP can make to his Institution. Sends testimonials and newspaper clippings about his Institution. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h4, Folder #1963h4.6]

Letter from Dr. Philip N. James to LP Re: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h4, Folder #1963h4.3]

Letter from Dr. Stephen Brunauer to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h3, Folder #1963h3.2]

Letter from Dr. W. Pilger to LP RE: (In German) Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h5, Folder #1963h5.2]

Letter from Edgar M. Carlson, President, Gustavus Adolphus College, to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h3, Folder #1963h3.3]

Letter from Eleanore and Mina W. Gill to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h3, Folder #1963h3.7]

Letter from Elizabeth Moos to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h4, Folder #1963h4.6]

Letter from Ernest Dale Minton to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Suggests using motion pictures to induce world peace and goodwill among differing peoples. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h4, Folder #1963h4.6]

Letter from Frances McConnell to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h4, Folder #1963h4.6]

Letter from George S. Hammond, CalTech, to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h4, Folder #1963h4.1]

Letter from H. Noller, Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut der Universität, to LP RE: (In German) Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h4, Folder #1963h4.7]

Letter from Harold Hölbling to LP RE: Written in German. Congratulates LP on winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Invites him to visit during his travels to Scandinavia to discusses matters concerning the effects of atom bomb testing. Encloses prints of two of his paintings. [Filed under LP Correspondence:(H: Correspondence, 1963) #169.1]

Letter from Hugh H. Anderson to Arnold Huss, Managing Editor, Pasadena Star News, cc: LP, RE: Thanks Pasadena Star News for the editorial, “Dr. Pauling’s Award,” of October 11. Is glad that LP is being recognized in his time. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h3, Folder #1963h3.1]

Letter from Istvan Arkus, Washington correspondent of the “Nepszabadsag,” to LP RE: States that the people of Hungary are pleased that LP has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Attaches with his letter several questions which the Editorial Board of the “Nepszabadsag,” has requested that LP answer. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence), #14.2]

Letter from Jan Symons to AHP RE: Congratulates LP and AHP on the Nobel Peace Prize. Says that Lawrence has just returned from the hospital and is unable to hear, see, and walk very well. Mentions that Antony is marrying fellow-artist Anuska and Mary Clare is working hard for her first-year medical exams. [Filed under AHP Individual Correspondence, Peace and Political: (Correspondence: Symons, Jan, 1960-1979), Box#1.006, Folder#6.17]

Letter from Kathleen Macpherson, President, Voice of Women, Canada, to LP RE: On behalf of Voice of Women, Canada, congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h6, Folder #1963h6.1]

Letter from Kenneth Ziebarth, Wesley Foundation, Christian Faith and Life Community, to LP RE: Says that in an attempt to widen horizons, the Wesley Foundation has decided to bring speakers of ‘unusual distinction’ in the areas of human problems to the Montana State College. Invites LP to address the campus if time permits. [Letter from LP to Ziebarth, October 30, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence), #77.1]

Letter from LP [Signed by Helen Gilrane] to Dr. Paul R. Earl, Director, The Literary Division, Biological and Medical Services, RE: Encloses a copy of his 1961 paper on anesthesia. Explains his belief that if Earl wants to reprint the article then he would have to ask the permission of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [Letter from Earl to LP October 14, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (E: Correspondence), #113.4]

Letter from LP to Henry R. Luce, Editor-in-Chief, Life Magazine. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Life), #219.3]

16 October 1963

Mr. Henry R. Luce

Editor-in-Chief

LIFE Magazine

Rockefeller Center

New York 20, New York

Dear Sir:

I write to express to you my extreme displeasure with the actions of LIFE Magazine, of which you are editor-in-Chief.

A few days ago I had the great experience of being notified that I had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962 by the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament. I am happy with this recognition of my efforts over many years to achieve world peace and morality, which I summarized in the concluding sentences of my book No More War! (1958), as follows:

"I believe to morality, in justice, in humanitarianism. We must recognize now that the power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used - we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immorality. The time has now come for morality to take its proper place in the conduct of world affairs; the time has now come for the nations of the world to submit to the just regulation of their conduct by international law."

I consider that the bomb-test treaty, which became effective on 10 October 1963, when the signed copies of the treaty were deposited in Moscow, London, and Washington, represents an important first step in this direction, and I was especially pleased that the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament should have selected that day for announcing the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to me.

Two days ago I was approached by representatives of LIFE Magazine, who asked if I would be willing to sacrifice two days to them, in order that they might obtain information and take photographs to be used in an article in LIFE Magazine. I agreed, and at 9:00 A.M. on Tuesday 15 October Miss Marge Byers and Mr. Don Craven came to my home. My wife and I spent the morning with them at our home, and I then devoted the whole of the afternoon of that day to them in my laboratory in the California Institute of Technology.

My wife and I, our daughter, and our three grandchildren then spent the major part of the nest morning, Wednesday 16 October 1963, in our home, in talking with Miss Byers and permitting Mr. Craven to take photographs of us. My wife and I had also agreed to go by plane to our ranch is the San Simeon-Big Sur district, with Miss Byers and Mr. Craven, in order that the afternoon of that day could be devoted to further discussions and pictography.

Earlier experience with the two magazines TIME and LIFE, of which you are Editor-in-Chief, had made it evident to me that representatives of these magazines cannot be relied upon to tell the truth. Miss Byers and Mr. Craven had assured me that the article would be published about my wife and me and our family in LIFE Magazine would be a responsible and truthful one. I felt, however, that I could not accept their assurances. I accordingly told them, on 15 October 1963, that before going ahead I would have to have assurance from some person of responsibility in the LIFE New York office.

They telephoned New York, and asked me to steak with an editor, Richard Stolley. Mr. Stolley identified himself to me by name, and then, after some discussion with me about my desire to be reassured, made the following statements to me:

“I will have control of this story. It will be fair. It will be honest. It won't be snide. It will not be the kind of story you read this morning.* We won’t double-cross you. We are, of course, going to talk about the controversies you have been in."

(* The story that I had seen that morning, and had read to Mr. Stolley over the telephone, was the story in TIME magazine about the award of the Nobel Fence Prize to me - a story in which there is unconscionable misrepresentation end the vicious use of pejoratives.)

I then asked Miss Byers to read the statement that Mr. Stolley had made, and which I had, written down, to Mr. Stolley and to ask him if he had in fact made this statement to me. After she had done so, Miss Byers made the following written statement:

“Yes, Dick Stolley did say this to Dr. Pauling on the phone. Signed, Margey Byers.”

I then permitted Miss Byers and Mr. Craven to continue with their questioning and photography yesterday afternoon and this evening.

At noon today, just before we were scheduled to leave for the airport in order to fly to our ranch near San Simeon with Miss Byers and Mr. Craven, Miss Byers and Mr. Craven came to my laboratory. Miss Byers then said to me “We have just learned that LIFE has gone to press with a very unfriendly editorial. Hence we just got to quit with this story.”

I recognize that the commitment made to me by Mr. Stolley refers literally only to the story, and not to the editorial; but I agree with the members of your staff that your publication of an unfair, dishonest or snide editorial about me would run counter to the spirit of the commitment, and I can understand their action in quitting with the story.

I point out that, at a time when I am overloaded with work, I have sacrificed a day and a half to LIFE Magazine, on the assurance given to me by the editor in charge of the story.

I consider that you, as Editor-in-Chief, are to be held responsible for this inexcusable treatment of me by LIFE Magazine, and I write to express to you my indignation, and my contempt for your magazines.

Linus Pauling:hpg

Letter from LP to Howard J. Lewis RE: Explains that he will not be able to prepare a manuscript of his address before the meeting but instead encloses the brief statement about his talk which he sent to Professor Melvin Calvin. [Letter from Lewis to LP October 8, 1963] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1955-1969), Box #14.021, Folder #21.5]

Letter from Professor Cyril Stanley Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h5, Folder #1963h5.4]

Letter from Raymond Bond, Dodd, Mead and Co., to Dr. and Mrs. Goertzel, RE: Bond finds it hard to just a whole book by only one chapter, but says that what he has seen thus far is good. He hopes to see further chapters before long. [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal and Family, Box 5.009, Folder 9.2]

Letter from Robert Ludwig, Non-Smokers’ Association of Canada, to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Invites LP to come and speak at a Non-Smokers’ Association of Canada conference in November. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h4, Folder #1963h4.5]

Letter from Sidney Gluck to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h3, Folder #1963h3.7]

Letter from Verlag Ernst Aust to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h3, Folder #1963h3.1]

Letter from W. M. Sheehan, Past President, World Federalists of Canada, to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Includes a copy of Van Slyck’s Peace: the Control of National Power. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Letter from LP to Sheehan October 31, 1963] [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h5, Folder #1963h5.4]

Newspaper Clipping: Written in Norwegian. “Slag i ansiktet,” by Morgenbladet, Orientiring (Halden, Norway), October 16, 1963. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to Linus Pauling, 1963: Box #1963n2, Folder #1963n2.59]

Newspaper Clipping: “A Man of Convictions,” Vancouver (British Columbia) Sun, October 16, 1963. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n2, Folder #1963n2.61]

Newspaper Clipping: “Letters to the Editor: Nobel Peace Prize,” by Abraham Young, New York Herald Tribune, October 16, 1963. [Newspaper Clipping: “Editorial: The Nobel Peacenik Prize” October 11, 1963] [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n2, Folder #1963n2.60] [Also Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box 1963n6, Folder #1963n6.33]

Newspaper Clipping: “Letters to the Editor: Nobel Peace Prize,” by Charles T. Jackson, New York Herald Tribune, October 16, 1963. [Newspaper Clipping: “Editorial: The Nobel Peacenik Prize” October 11, 1963] [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n2, Folder #1963n2.60][Also Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box 1963n6, Folder #1963n6.33]

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