Monday, October 07, 2002

Was Fitzgerald's Gatsby a real person? Unraveling a mystery Monday, October 7, 2002 Posted: 3:07 PM EDT (1907 GMT) COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) -- Howard Comen spent a long, hot summer in New York on the trail of an elusive man -- who's been dead for almost 45 years.   The Charleston-based private investigator is trying to unravel the mystery of 1920s socialite Max von Gerlach. Or maybe his name was Max Stark Gerlach.   He may have been a German baron whose family fled Europe during World War I. He may have been a bootlegger who used a car dealership and society friends to hide his ill-gotten gains.   Gerlach's story -- like those of so many of his Jazz Age peers -- may have simply faded away with time. But, some experts say, Gerlach was immortalized by one of his contemporaries, F. Scott Fitzgerald, in "The Great Gatsby." Read more at CNN 4:11:22 PM    comments? [] It is Nobel Prize Week. The prizes for Medicine   .... It is Nobel Prize Week. The prizes for Medicine (Monday, 10/7), Physics (Tuesday, 10/8), Chemistry and Economics (Wednesday, 10/9), and Peace (Friday, 10/11) will be announced by the Nobel Foundation this week. In keeping with tradition, the date of the Literature Prize announcement will be set later. This year's prizes each carry a cash award of 10.0 million Swedish kronor (about $1 million). [LibraryNotes - News and Interesting Stuff from the World of Library and Information Science Contact Sandy      Wilton Weblog LibraryNotes Current] 1:33:22 PM    comments? []

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