Word: award
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Casablanca (at the Brattle Theater through Saturday). The Academy Award-winning masterpiece that many cinema historians rank in the top three or four movies of all time...
Southern Illinois University 1957 Elijah P. Lovejoy Award for "realistic devotion to the principles of law and order" that exposed him to "the scorn and abuse of a large segment of his community." It was Horace Wells's third award this year. The others: a special award from the Tennessee Press Association, a National Editorial Association citation for "courageous personal journalism...
...special ceremony in the Pentagon's inner courtyard one day last week, Army Secretary Wilber Brucker bestowed the largest cash reward ever made by the Army for an employee suggestion: a $10,000 joint award to Stanislaus Danko. 41, and Moe Abramson, 45, career employees at the Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories at Fort Monmouth, N.J. Their idea: an automation process that punches holes in regular printed or etched electronic circuits, drops the leads of components (resistors, tubes) through the holes, dips the leads in a solder bath, soldering all connections in one operation. The Government made the system available...
...President Eisenhower sent his respects, and doughty Norwegian Ambassador Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne paid tribute to Balchen. Then, to add to the constellation of honors (including the Legion of Merit and the Medal of Honor) he had already, Balchen got another: the National Pilots Association's Outstanding Aviator Award...
...introduced by last year's Award-winner, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, who said that we should not worry too much about the meaning of cummings' poems, that "a poem is apprehended in the ear." He termed cummings "one of the few pure lyric voices of our time." It is true that cummings reads very musically and slowly, relishing every syllable whether it means anything or not. The best impression was made by his poem "Thanksgiving: 1956," in which he denounced the official apathy of our government during the Hungarian crisis. Still, cummings is far from being...