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...aviation trophies, three are famed. One is the Harmon Trophy, award of which fortnight ago made Wiley Post No. 1 airman of the year. Another is the Collier Trophy which annually rewards outstanding development in U. S. aeronautics. The third, and in some respects the most significant, is the Daniel Guggenheim Gold Medal which last week went to Board Chairman William Edward Boeing of potent United Aircraft & Transport Corp. First awarded in 1929 to Orville Wright, the Guggenheim Medal has gone each year to outstanding scientists in advanced aeronautical engineering. No aeronautical engineer is this year's winner...
...last time the Pulitzer Prize committee made a theatre award which met with anything like universal approval was in 1930. That year the $1,000 "for the original American play performed in New York which shall best represent the educational value and power of the stage" went to The Green Pastures. By that time the prize committee had practically ceased trying to abide by the will of Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, which had also stipulated that the winning drama should be pre-eminent "in raising the standards of good morals, good taste and good manners." Last week the award...
...years his university has been handling the Pulitzer Prizes, President Butler has had time to become accustomed to such squabbles as last week's. A parallel case in the dramatic award occurred in 1924 when the play jury unanimously selected George Kelly's The Showoff, only to have the general committee give the prize to Hatcher Hughes's Hell-bent for Heaven...
...clubs paid for readers and other expenses at Ohio State University but her own industry got her an A. B. in 3½ years. As an experiment, a Dayton high school gave her a teaching job. She has held it for 20 years. Next month Columbia will award...
Besides pride and pleasure Pulitzer Prizes generally generate a good deal of professional controversy. The 1934 awards made last week at Columbia University were no exceptions. Losers made almost as much news as winners when the recommendations of special juries to pick the best novel, the best history and the best play (see p. 48), were overridden by the prize-awarding board. Only in the field of journalism did there seem to be a notable unanimity of choice. Yet no award was more astonishing than that of the $500 gold medal "for the most disinterested and meritorious public service rendered...