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Miller won the history award posthumously for his book. The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War. He had not finished the book when he died, and it was completed by his wife...
Schlesinger received the Pulitzer award in biography for his book, A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. In his preface, he called the work a "personal memoir by one who served in the White House during the Kennedy yars." It was praised by reviewers for conveying the spirit of the New Frontier...
Katherine Anne Porter received the Pulitzer prize for fiction, and Richard Eberhart won the poetry award. On the unanimous recommendation of the drama-advisory board, no 1966 drama prize was awarded...
Such loyalty, such dedication, is bound to be properly awarded. It was as if all Hollywood had gathered to pay Mrs. Washington solemn tribute. It must have dazzled her beyond description to watch the long ranks of limousines disgorge the great celebrities. There, with Actor George Hamilton, was Lynda Bird Johnson in an orange brocade thing with a mink hem, and a hair and makeup job courtesy of Hollywood's George Masters. And there was Lana Turner in a $2,000 number described as beaded chiffon, and Shelley Winters in a black sheath with organza Quaker collar...
When it came to awards, the night belonged to The Sound of Music, which won five, including the prizes for the best picture and best director (Robert Wise). Veteran Lee Marvin, 42, the hilarious mugger in Cat Ballon, was best actor. The best-actress award amounted to a battle of Julies: Andrews (for Sound of Music) and Christie (for Darling) -and Christie won it. For their performances in supporting roles, Martin Balsam got an Oscar for A Thousand Clowns, and Shelley Winters got her second (her first, in 1959: The Diary of Anne Frank) for A Patch of Blue...