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Laid up with a virus infection at his winter home in Pinehurst. N.C.. General of the Armies George Catlett Marshall, 72, got some news better than any medicine. After 52 years of Nobel awards, five Norwegian politicians picked Old Soldier Marshall as the first professional military man ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The 1953 award (a tax-free $33.954) went to him for a civilian achievement: his prime-mover's role as author of the Marshall Plan, which has helped Western Europe's ravaged economies through postwar convalescence. At week's end Marshall flew to Washington, entered Walter Reed Hospital for rest and treatment. From Oslo also came the announcement that Dr. Albert Schweitzer, 78, had won the held-over 1952 Peace Prize ($33.149) for forsaking fame as a philosopher, theologian and musicologist to spend the past 40 years of his life discharging "the greatest unpaid debt of Western civilization" —as a medical missionary in French Equatorial Africa.
Christine (ne George) Jorgensen signed a contract with Mercury Records, Inc. to sing six ditties for popular release. Among the tunes: There'll Be Some Changes Made, She's Funny That Way.