(J. T. A. Mail Service)
M. Armand Bernard, the French Minister to Norway, received today the 1927 Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Professor Henri Bergson, who is ill and was unable to be present at the distribution of the prizes by the King of Norway in the Stockholm City Hall. The prize consisted this year of a check amounting to 1,071,000 francs (about $43,000), a diploma and a gold medal.
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