Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having nothing that corresponds closely to either cinema's gold-plated statuette award (informally called "Oscar") or literature's, press's and theatre's Pulitzer Prizes, radio takes its annual laurels from the Women's National Radio Committee! This organization is affiliated with numerous women's clubs. The women awarded their gold microphone last week to NBC Blue network Sustaining Broadcaster George V. Denny Jr. and his America's Town Meeting...
...first time in the history of the exhibition, the Watson F. Blair Prize of $600 was awarded to a nude, Nude, by Grigory Gluckmann, a Russian artist now living in Paris. Covered with a rosy brown wash modeled into a seated nude figure, the paper was scratched with a razor to bring out highlights and sheen of flesh. The second Blair award of $400 went to Millard Sheets, a handsome, 30-year-old Californian, for Mystic Night (see cut), which seemed "modernist" to Miss Jewett but just kind of nice to other critics...
...honorary John Harvard award has been given to Reed E. Peggram '35, 2G. Leo N. Gallary '25, 2G, Wyndham M. Southgate '81, assistant in History, and Norman A. Malcolm 2G. have also received grants...
...novel receiving the award is cast in the same mold of undistinguishable mediocrity, harmless, until it is puffed up as a great American work of art. Herein lies the evil: the Pulitzer Committee by putting its stamp of approval on such flimsy material, sets a standard of mediocrity which is believed and accepted in the nation as the best. Their prizes throw an effective smoke screen over the strong efforts in American writing, permitting persevering incompetents and academic rhymesters to practice their lack of art in the spotlight of public approval. It is true that they stir up public interest...
...Award of ten graduate fellowships totalling $10,850 for study at the University and abroad was announced today by the Harvard-Yenching Institute...