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With Christopher Morley he founded the Saturday Review of Literature in 1924. Benet won the National Play-wrighting Award for his play, "Day's End," produced in 1939, and in 1942 he earned the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His recently published work includes "American Ballads" and the narrative poem, "The Dust Which...
...Miss Lisanti should have won the medal last year . . . [She] had the highest point total . . . [but] the stuffed shirts in the Horse Show Association found themselves confronted with an unthinkable situation. . . . The idea of a girl from the Bronx, whose father accepted wagers on horse races, winning their annual award shocked them down to the very roots of their well-bred bunions. ... A last-hour disqualification, based on the charge that [Mama] Lisanti had insulted one of the judges, sidetracked [Lois] in favor of Miss Dorothy Ritterbush . . . whose father is wealthy and entertains lavishly at his Jersey estate...
More young men fortified with the practical experience of college newspaper work, and with the theoretical background of the social sciences, are needed as political writers, stated Nathan Robertson, Washington correspondent for PM and winner of the Heywood Broun award for the outstanding liberal newspaperman...
Even among the brave, silent men of the submarine fleet, 38-year-old Commander Samuel D. Dealey was a hero. As skipper of the submarine Harder, he had won four Navy Crosses, two Presidential citations. General MacArthur had awarded him the D.S.C. (for reasons withheld because of security). His force commander had recommended him for the nation's highest award, the Medal of Honor...
Eight-time winner of the A. A. Parkhurst award for outstanding community service rendered by a weekly paper in Colorado, Waring feels that a college education in the social sciences is excellent training for a journalist. The student, he says, should learn "the history and ethics of the profession," and, he adds with a smile, "become acquainted with the laws of libel...