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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest single publishing award open to aspiring authors is the fat old Atlantic Monthly's annual $10,000 prize. First and most famed beneficiary was Canada's Mazo de la Roche, whose Jalna won in 1927. Last week another woman writer was similarly enriched when Mrs. Winifred Mayne Van Etten, 34, of Mt. Vernon, Iowa, received the 1936 Atlantic prize for a novel called I Am the Fox, which the Atlantic Monthly Press will issue in August...
...observatories the world over. Year later Peltier went to Cambridge as honor delegate at the convention of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, whose membership of 350 includes only twelve professionals. There, for his "tremendous contributions" to astronomy, he was given the association's first merit award-a handsome certificate and a cash prize. Someone once asked Astronomer Peltier why he did not join the staff of a big observatory. He replied that 1) he was satisfied to remain a freelance; 2) he had not been invited. The fact is that amateurs render valuable service by "sweeping...
...also found his fellow governors uncongenial. While a U. S. delegate to the 1933 London Economic Conference, he considered himself rather ill-used by ironic foreign correspondents of the U. S. Press. Even more did he resent the general acceptance of his Reserve Board appointment as an unvarnished political award. He went to Washington determined to demonstrate that he was more than a rubber stamp for Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles. There he ran into something worse than a clash of opinions: his New Dealing colleagues did not take him as seriously as he took himself...
...presenting the award, George R. Agassiz '84, President of the Board of Overseers, stated that there were places for the names of victorious crews for a hundred years and expressed a hope that William D. Locke '36, captain of the Lowell Crew, might find the names of his son and grandson on the cup in future years...
While browsing through your issue of May ii, 1 ran across the Pulitzer Prize award announcements, learning to my more or less great dismay that the news had not yet seeped into New York, or at least the TIME offices, that Robert Peter Tristram Coffin was no longer a member of the Wells College faculty. 1 am prompted by utterly selfish motives to hasten to lay claim to Mr. Coffin for his alma mater, Bowdoin College...