Word: award
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poet Robert Frost, 84, newly anointed poetry consultant to the Library of Congress (TIME, Oct. 27), gathered in new kudos: the $5,000 Huntington Hartford Foundation Award for 1958. Among previous winners, for their contributions of "unusual significance to the arts": madcap Painter Salvador Dali (1957), flinty Literary Historian Van Wyck (The Flowering of New England) Brooks...
...Boston Red Sox Slugger (35 home runs, 122 runs batted in) Jackie Jensen was voted the American League's Most Valuable Player, became the first player on a non-pennant winner to win the award since Yogi Berra did it in 1954. Runner-up: Yankee Pitcher Bob Turley.
That Miss Schell won the Cannes Best Actress award is not surprising; she is a highly accomplished actress and, not incidentally, beautiful. But she is somewhat disappointing. As the blinky-eyed ads would imply, she has a bad knack for simpering; she simpers very well, but too much. Her face is wonderfully mobile, but the fine differences of its expressions are limited. She does not stand out over all else in the film, but she does posses a dramatic urgency and an understanding of the excruciating moral dilemma which makes The Last Bridge as profound and important a film...
...Greece, cement contractors in Lebanon, nylon manufacturers in India. This week Bill Graham was looking right in his own backyard for business ideas to encourage. Onto a statewide TV hookup from Wichita's KAKE-TV went the first of twelve TV programs called Opportunity Knocks that will award up to $75,000 in financial backing to the best home-grown ideas for small business...
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. The novel that clinched the Nobel Prize for Russia's greatest living man of letters, since forced by the Soviet's brain-distrusters to reject the award...