Word: award
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cash award of $1500 is attached to these citations by the two institutes. Layton is a composer of orchestral, choral and chamber music. He was graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music and has since studied at the American Academy in Rome, under a three-year fellowship...
...French Anderson received the Wilcox award, annually given to an outstanding quarter-mile runner. The McLaughlin trophy for freshman achievement was presented to Jared E. Fitzgerald...
...second award, Mrs. Sharon Deykin Baris, Radcliffe '58 received the Helen Choate Bell prize of $400 for 1957-58. Her award-winning essay was entitled, "Hawthorne's Use of the Crowd...
Then Van fell prey to the rigors of the "concert jungle." The second season after the Leventritt Award he had only two-thirds as many concerts; the next season he played virtually none. There were some personal reasons. First he expected to be inducted into the Army. At the last moment an Army medic discovered that he had persistent nose bleeds and declared him 4-F. Then, last summer, his mother broke a vertebra, and he went back to Texas to coach her piano students for six weeks. By that time it was too late to think of bookings...
...knocked down Mrs. May Lee, 69, and broke a couple of her ribs. The Braves refused to pay May Lee's $100 hospital bill on the ground that fans assume certain risks when they buy their tickets. Last week the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld an award of $3,675 to Mrs. Lee on the ground that the Braves' County Stadium ushers were negligent in their duty to protect spectators. In the past, ball clubs have rarely been held liable for similar injuries, and ball teams in both leagues braced themselves for a flood of claims...