Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIMI> [Sept. 26] . . . seems to have been misinformed about the so-called papal award to William Randolph Hearst...
...Lateran Cross awarded Mr. Hearst was a simple medal, not an award from Pope Pius XII. Vatican sources said that Hearst's name had been mentioned for an award, but had been turned down...
...Pimlico Special, coming at the end of the season when all but the champions have raced themselves out of contention, is a far more important race than its purse value suggests. For 13 years it has played a leading role in the annual horse-of-the-year award, and it has sometimes resuited in a race of the year (such as War Admiral v. Seabiscuit in 1938).* Last week's renewal of the sporting Special-by invitation as usual, for $15,000 winner-take-all-brought together the two speed demons of 1949's two leading stables: Calumet...
...Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams' drama about a genteel nymphomaniac, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critic's Circle Award in Manhattan two seasons ago. Last week, still thriving on Broadway, Streetcar threatened to become a parliamentary issue in London and a scandale in Paris...
...Tammany Hall could award the next Nobel Prize for literature, it might well choose Scotsman Bruce Marshall. Novelist Marshall (Father Malachy's Miracle, Vespers in Vienna) cannily laces his fiction with all the flourishes of the practicing ward heeler. He is always for the little fellow, cries out loudly against the interests, roots piously for religion, winks broadly at the moral delinquencies of the unfortunate...