Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Disturbed was Artist Kent at this discrimination; insulted was he by further developments. For Marcus & Co. instructed Harvard to divide its award by sending a $500 check to Mr. Kent and a $500 check to Mr. Hammarstrom. Mr. Kent promptly returned the $500. Said he: "I cannot see that Mr. Hammarstrom is entitled to any recognition whatsoever." Thereupon Mr. Marcus announced that the entire $1,000 was really the property of Marcus & Co. and that Mr. Kent had been sent his $500 "purely as a courtesy." Both checks were returned to Harvard with instructions to make out a single...
Since the award was for the advertisement "most effective in its use of pictorial illustration," the jurors who made the award were unquestionably thinking of the drawing as a Kent, not as a Hammarstrom product. Had Marcus & Co. argued that the prize winning advertisement was a Marcus & Co. achievement for which no personal credit should be given, their position would not be in conflict with the Harvard Award system, which generally glorifies organizations rather than individuals. What chiefly troubles Mr. Kent (and puzzles the advertising world) is that, having decided to give personal credit, Marcus & Co. put the laurel wreath...
...Marcus action may not seem important from the standpoint of establishing a precedent. Last year's illustration award went to the Cadillac Co., which gave recognition to Artist Thomas L. Cleland...
...probable that next year's award will also include mention of the artist. The fact that Mr. Kent, even prior to the present controversy, terminated relations with Marcus & Co. and is at present engaged in preparing drawings for another Fifth Avenue establishment accents the fact that the Marcus & Co. "incident" is isolated rather than typical. Nevertheless, in an age when many marriages are at tempted between Art & Business*, such an incident seemed likely to confirm the artist in his suspicion that Business is without honor at the moment when Business was beginning to appreciate the fine shades of honor...
...award will be made on recommendation by the Department of Economics, solely with regard to the ability of the several candidates and without consideration of their pecuniary means...