Word: award
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Bandleader Benny Goodman presented the N.A.A.C.P.'s 44th annual Spingarn Award (for high achievement by an American Negro) to "an old and cherished friend." Added to such names as George Washington Carver, Marian Anderson, Richard Wright, Ralph Bunche and Jackie Robinson: the jazz world's Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington...
...fact that abstraction reigns supreme in the hearts of the nation's young artists. To make a great abstraction is difficult-perhaps even impossible. But passably assured and decorative examples are fairly easy to produce, and juries-under the spell of trend and times-tend to award them their prizes. The jury at Chicago's Art Institute gave Richard Talaber, 26, the top prize for just such a picture. At Boston's elaborate summer Arts Festival, the Grand Prize went to a sculptor, Gilbert Franklin, for his safely modern Beach Figure, clean-lined and anonymous...
Manila announced that Tibet's Dalai Lama, in Indian haven after escaping the Red Chinese invaders of his land, had won this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership, a salute for the god-king's role in Tibet's "gallant struggle...
Died. John Gamble Kirkwood, 52, Chemistry Department chairman at Yale University, who developed a new method of separating blood proteins, at 28 won the American Chemical Society's Langmuir award in pure chemistry; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn...
Sidney Poitier is superb as Porgy! His performance is certain to win him another Academy Award nomination, and he may well walk away with it this time. Mr. Poitier has always been commended for his sensitivity; but in his Porgy we see a new dimension for it, for this is the first time, to my recollection, that he has been cast in a truly gentle role...