Word: award
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Came Out. By 1957 Maria decided that she was ready for Hollywood. Alone, and armed with only an invitation to the Academy Award festivities, she left last March for the U.S. An officer of the Academy met her at the Los Angeles airport and took her to her hotel. No flashbulbs, no pressagents; nobody knew who she was and nobody cared. But 48 hours later she had MGM's top brass in a corporate rattle, and into her lap had fallen a tentative offer of the juiciest part the studio had to offer...
Born. To Bobby Joe Morrow, 22, sprinter who won three Gold Medals in the 1956 Olympics and earned SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S Sportsman of the Year Award, and Jo Ann Strickland Morrow, 22: twins, their first children; in Abilene, Texas. Names: Ron Floyd and Viki Jo. Weights...
...Keith Memorial is a foolish bit of movie-making called The Unknown Terror. This terror turns out to be a supposedly virulent fungus that threatens to inundate the world. But since the terror looks like nothing so much as a mass of soapsuds, it surely deserves some sort of award for the sickliest monster of the year...
Although the Law School has not yet raised all necessary funds, it plans to start construction as soon as possible. The Department of Buildings and Grounds has received bids from contractors and should award a contract within the next week...
...National Council of Catholic Youth named James H. Manahan '58 of Lowell House as runner-up for the outstanding Catholic Youth of America award. The winner was a 19-year-old girl from Milton...