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Last year one of the major surprises in the Pulitzer Prize announcements was the award of the poetry prize to Audrey Wurdemann, 24-year-old Seattle girl, for her second book. Bright Ambush. While most critics found Miss Wurdemann's verse promising and fluent, it was also characterized as conventional, frail, filled with echoes of stock poetic attitudes and phrases. Last week Miss Wurdemann's third book revealed an attempt to cope with a major theme, relating in varied verse forms the narrative of seven brothers whose lives represented, as they plunged toward their respective dooms, the seven...
...Committee has announced that it will award a free ticket to any volunteer who sells ten tickets. Several men are already working on this plan, but there are opportunities for a few more, and men desiring to do this work should see Hedblom in Thayer 32 today or tomorrow. Until December 1 tickets are priced at $1.25 a couple and $1.00 stag...
Paul M. Hefferman, who graduated from the School in 1935, has the most distinguished sheet of the six. His exhibited thesis, "An Estate and Art Gallery for an Art Collector," won the Paris Prize in 1935, the highest student award in Architecture...
...Washington last week 250 amateur photographs, hand culled from a series of simultaneous contests held by 64 newspapers throughout the U. S., were up on the walls of the National Geographic Society's Hall of Explorers for the final award of prizes totaling $10,000. Curious for an art contest of such value was the list of judges: Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the President; Mrs. Emily ("Etiquette") Post; Hiram Percy Maxim; Lowell...
...pseudonym of C. Spoelstra, 34-year-old Dutch novelist, adventurer, roving editor of an outdoor-sports magazine, now traveling in the Near East. Although his novels are popular in Holland, they have not won the endorsement of intellectual bigwigs, who created a sensation when they refused to award him the Dutch equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. In a brief introduction to Express to the East, den Doolard mentions his months of wandering through Macedonia, "sometimes thirsty and penniless and dirty, sometimes drinking iced plum brandy in the luxurious restaurant wagon of the Orient Express," hints that he has taken part...