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Pearl S. Buck, Chairman of the governor's committee on handicapped children speaking. Philadelphia Inquirer.

109. Pearl S. Buck Speaking

'Miss Pearl S. Buck, author of "The Good Earth" and member of the national executive committee of United China Relief, will speak Monday afternoon at a tea in her Honor in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fraser Harris, "Harston" Chestnut Hill.  United China Relief, under the chairmanship of Ludwig C. Lewis, soon launches an appeal in the Philadelphia area for $250,000 to aid 53,000,000 refugees, made homeless by Japanese bombings.'

110. Pearl S. Buck

'Pearl Buck, left, noted author, and Luise Rainer, famous actress, make plans for the million-dollar drive launched by the China Emergency Relief Committee. The drive is for the benefit of the war-stricken people of China.  Miss Buck is chairman of the drive and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is honorary chairman.'

111. Pearl S. Buck Seeking Aid for China

'Dr. Burgess L. Gordon, president of Woman's Medical college of Pennsylvania, presents honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters to Pearl Buck at commencement.'

112. Pearl S. Buck Honored

'Pearl Buck (right) receives Award of Distinction plaque from Mrs. Milton Halin at luncheon of Ruth Marks Magilner Chapter, B'nai B'rith Women's Council.'

113. Pearl S. Buck Receiving Award of Distinction

'Among notables present at the Ball were these three left to right Pearl S. Buck, Novelist; Dr. I.S. Ravdin, U. of Penna Medical Faculty; and Judge William Hastie.'

114. Pearl S. Buck at Guild Ball

'Author Pearl Buck receives 1958 Benjamin N. Cardozo Award from Ralph M. Schwartzberg, honorary supreme chancellor of the Tau Epsilion Rho law fraternity, at dinner in Warwick Hotel.  Fraternity is holding its annual convention here.'

115. Pearl Buck Awarded

'State Rep. Bessie A. Buchanan, of New York (left), and Mayor-elect Richardson Dilworth present the Philadelphia cotillion Society's Amethyst Cross of Malta to Pearl S. buck, noted author, for her "unceasing activity in the cause of human rights" at seventh Christmas cotillion at Convention Hall.'

116. Pearl Buck Honored

'Mrs. Pearl Buck, author of "The Good Earth," who lives near Doylestown, Pa., was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.  She is the first American Woman so honored.'

117. Pearl S. Buck

'Pearl Buck, whose home is near Dublin, Bucks County.'

118. Pearl S. Buck

'Pearl Buck Nobel Prize Winner--When Pearl Buck was told today that she had won the 1938 Nobel prize for literature she said she "just couldn't believe it."  She is shown in the office of her publisher-husband, Richard J. Walsh, who said his wife probably won the prize for her famous book "The Good Earth", and other works including "This Proud Heart."'

119. Pearl S. Buck with the News of Winning Nobel Prize

'Pearl Buck American novelist who was awarded the Nobel prize for literature this year, is pictured as she arrived home on the S.S. Aquitania today.  She is telling ship news reporters how much she enjoyed her stay in Stockholm, Sweden, where King Gustave presented her with her prize.'

120. Pearl S. Buck at Home with Nobel Prize