Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Anne Baxter won an Academy Award for the best supporting drunk of the year, while the award for the best drunk went to Fredric March [TIME, March...
...also that Olivia de Havilland earned an award for being an illegitimate mother...
...Fiorello LaGuardia, for "public service . . . fearless expression ... of the highest ideals of One World," went the annual One World Award established in memory of Wendell Willkie...
...Helen Hayes, for "the outstanding performance by an American actress on the current New York stage [Happy Birthday']" went the annual Barter Theater Award-"one Virginia ham and a platter to eat it off of; one acre of land on the side of a mountain near Abingdon [Va.]." To Actress Jinx Falkenburg, from some 50,000 admiring beauticians in convention in Manhattan, went the title, America's No. 1 Brunette. Actress Rita Hayworth (who used to be a redhead, and before that a brunette) was chosen No. 1 Blonde, and Actress Evelyn Keyes (who used...
...father, the late N. C. (for Newell Convers) Wyeth, a top U.S. illustrator of children's books. But they were even more disarmingly realistic than N.C.'s paintings had been. Last week the American Academy of Arts and Letters announced that it will give its 1947 Award of Merit Medal (and the $1,000 which goes with it) to Andrew Wyeth. The Academy makes its award to a painter only once every five years (1942 winner: Veteran Charles Burchfield...