Word: award
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque. The major item, however, was the Sonata for Flute, Oboe, 'Cello and Harpsichord (1952) by Elliot Carter '30. The Piano Sonata (1946) marked the beginning of Carter's complete technical mastery. The present Sonata, which won the Walter W. Naumburg Musical Foundation Award in 1956, was written between two highly controversial and monumental works, the String Quartet (1951) and the Variations for Orchestra...
...Gaulle had other sops to throw-a third star for Brigadier General Jacques Massu, the balcony hero of the paratroopers, and France's highest military award, the Médaille Militaire, for teeter-tottering General Raoul Salan, who last week abandoned his flirtation with the ultras long enough to pledge that his army would "give to General de Gaulle the magnificent performance he has asked of us." De Gaulle also invited Salan and Massu to share the Bastille Day platform with him in Paris this week...
This week resolute Editor Dunn got his reward: the 1958 Elijah P. Lovejoy* Award for Courage in Journalism from Southern Illinois University. Said the citation: Dunn "exemplifies the courage and devotion to the public welfare which is the crowning glory of the weekly newspaper editor in America...
Comedy of Manners. Author Barth is assistant professor of English at Penn State and, unlike most teachers of English, he likes words well enough to play with them after school. His first novel, The Floating Opera, was runner-up for the 1957 National Book Award in fiction. Now The End of the Road reveals him as a very funny (but notably unfrivolous) writer...
...numerous prizes is a handful of incentive firms that have made big business out of shooting adrenalin into salesmen. The biggest is Dayton's E. F. MacDonald Co., which last year had a hand in triggering the sale of $1 billion worth of merchandise. MacDonald urges firms to award varied prizes, usually merchandise on a point scale, thus give every salesman some incentive to better his work. Incentive firms are also responsible for the newest gimmick in incentive selling: getting the entire company, from the president to the janitor, to take part in sales promotions. Denver's Ringsby...