Word: award
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could make headlines by: 1) establishing a cafeteria cashier as a cold cream heiress; 2) grooming her to marry a European title; 3) publicizing her $30-a-week newshawk husband as ''the American Cinderella Man." This is Bette Davis' first film since she won an Academy award for acting in Dangerous (TIME, March 16)- a fact of which Warner Brothers made much use in their advertising. Although Miss Davis still can make her eyes pop and her lips droop, The Golden Arrow proves nothing more than that she is adept at nonchalance. Good shot: her proposal...
...while he still was Harvard's brilliant medical light, Dr. Harvey Williams Gushing was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of his great good friend, the late Sir William Osier. The award saluted a rarity, an able doctor who was also an able literary craftsman. The salute also confirmed Dr. Cushing's reputation as a thoroughgoing medical historian...
Until Columbia University's trustees began to consume a Manhattan banquet last week, they scrupulously refused to emit the names of those to whom they had decided to award the annual Pulitzer Prizes lor Journalism and for belles-lettres...
...Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis (TIME, Aug. 26), a long, humorous, color ful account of pioneer days in Oregon, where Author Davis was born 40 years ago. Harold Davis was the first winner of the Harper Novel Prize ($7,500) to cash in on a Pulitzer award ($1,000) as well...
Honorable mention was given to Roger F. Duncan '38 on his essay. "The Sen Novel from Smollet to Marryatt." The award is a prize of $50 in books...