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Music received its first special award when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences handed out its annual Oscars last week (see p. 68). The special award went to Conductor Leopold Stokowski, for "the creation of a new form of visualized music" in Walt Disney's Fantasia, and it highlighted both the growing influence of Hollywood as a music capital and Hollywood's increasing dependence on music. Other musician winners...
...Marianne Moore, a greying, mobile-faced, almost reckless spinster, born in St. Louis, Mo. in 1887. She graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1909. She was an assistant in the New York Public Library from 1921-25. In 1924 her book of poems Observations received the $2,000 Dial award; and for five uninterruptedly happy years thereafter she served on the learnedly esthetic Dial's editorial staff. Since the Dial's demise in 1929, Miss Moore has picked up a microscopic living from her writings, for the last twelve years has lived a sequestered life in her mother...
...become increasingly evident that opinion is strong for the favorite cigarette, and that the majority of Seniors, like Johny, "call for Phillip Morris." In addition, although the final decision has by no means been settled as yet, indications are that Bette Davis will run off with the Harvard Academy Award...
Robert M. Hutchins, President of the University of Chicago, used last Sunday's New York Times to lash out at what he calls "the confusion, waste and uncertainty of American education." He advocated a plan to award the bachelor's degree at the end of Sophomore year at college, thereby ending the average student's general education at the age of 20 and allowing "the students who want to go farther, and are able to do so," to start working for their master's degree in their Junior year...
...Frances Dodge Johnson, youngest (27) daughter of the late Motor Magnate John F. Dodge, won a court award of a $10,000,000 trust fund, after a two-year family fight. Father Dodge's will provided that $10 million go to her when she reached 25, but her halfbrother, John Duval Dodge, sued to break the will when he found it left him only $150 a month. Members of the family gave him a settlement...