Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promotion of racial and religious amity, Columnist Billy Rose got B'nai B'rith's award for outstanding journalism...
...exposing another sort of censorship, Nat S. Finney, 44, Washington correspondent of the Cowles Bros.'s Minneapolis Star and Tribune and Des Moines Register & Tribune, last week won the $500 Raymond Clapper memorial award. Last fall, Finney reported, President Truman had approved a "security code" under which Government employees were forbidden to disclose stories "embarrassing" to Government officials. The code was dumped when Finney led the press howl of protest. At the White House Correspondents' dinner, Finney had the satisfaction of getting his check from President Harry Truman, who had made the bobble...
Just what the condition of 'Eastern wrestling is, and where Harvard therefore stands, was clarified when John Fictcher, Navy 145-pounder, took the outstanding-wrestler-of-the meet award. After winning the same distraction last year, Fletcher entered the National championships which Western boys are allowed to enter and got only as far as third place where he was soundly beston...
...most lucrative of many prizes which are now going begging for lack of takers is the $1,100 Bowdoin award for dissertations in English, which five prose-writers divide. Stringency of requirements cannot be the reason, for the essays must be "on any subject suitable for treatment in a literary form...
...seem acceptable, compared with the wilder menace of "impressionism." Manet refused to exhibit with the sunburned young landscapists, yet his defeats paved the way for their triumphs. Manet ended by cutting quite a swath in the Paris art world; the elegant prophet of painted light at last received an award he craved: the Cross of the Legion of Honor...