Word: award
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...medium that once saw Bishop Sheen and Arthur Godfrey nominated for the same award ("Outstanding Personality of the Year") had changed not a bit. The academy this time managed to match lightfooted Fred Astaire with Actor Christopher Plummer and 14-year-old Robert Crawford in the race for "Best Single Performance by an Actor." Winner: Hoofer Astaire. (Astaire also won eight other awards, exactly 27 lbs. of Emmys, all for his memorable song-and-dance show last October.) The catalogue of categories seemed endless. On and on it went, until one irritated critic was moved to ask: "Is there...
...there had been any award for work on the Emmy show itself, it would have gone to the cameramen and technicians-all NBC executives, and surprisingly competent. In all three cities the pros were picketing outside, fighting for their union's claims that the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians ought to work on all NBC shows, even when they are taped abroad. One result: Vice President Nixon turned up for the award dinner three hours before it started in order to beat the pickets to Washington's Mayflower Hotel and technically avoid crossing the line...
...During its 30 years on radio and television, Voice of Firestone won just about every merit award but the one that counts with network moneymen: a high rating. Notified by ABC that prime Monday-night time would no longer be available next season, and with no adequate substitute time on CBS or NBC, Voice will almost surely die in June. Even a last-minute offer last week by Los Angeles' KTTV to tape the show and sell it to independent stations was regretfully turned down. Having put on a high-quality musical show for so long, and having...
...right in a way. She just does "what other people are doing," but with a difference: she does it with no arms, and with artificial legs. The President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped could have found no more logical recipient for its annual trophy award to the "Handicapped American of the Year...
Handling a modified MGa stock car, Ruch garnered his points in a fortnightly series of events sponsored by the Motor Club. Ruch exhibited unusual strength in the Gymkhana events, going undefeated in both inter-collegiate and Conference sports car contests. An award of a silver bowl was presented to Ruch at the final meeting of the Motor Club by vice president Lynn Harris '57-3, of Eliot House...