Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cover story on an extraordinary farm lad is in large part the work of another farm lad not so many years senior to Star Farmer Joe Moore. The assignment of T. George Harris to the story of the 21-year-old winner of the Future Farmers of America award was a natural...
...opposite pole is Nigel Dennis' fantasy, Cards of Identity. Dennis' first book, A Sea Change, won him the Anglo-American Novel Award in 1949. Dennis, who lives in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England, has been a contributing editor of TIME since 1942, specializing in reviewing books. Now that he has written another one of his own, he seems to be creating a sensation among his fellow critics. Said the New York Times: "Cards of Identity may be remembered and read for some time to come." The London Sunday Times called it "one of the three or four most mercurially alert...
...Union of High School Students (U.E.S.) and turned over to its girls' division the 124-acre presidential estate at Olivos, a Buenos Aires suburb. "Just call me Pocho," Perón told the girls, and he came often to watch the basketball, skating and sailboat racing, or to award wallets containing 500-peso notes to graduates of the classes in dancing, gymnastics and drama. On one such occasion, he met green-eyed Nelly, a janitor's daughter. Perón, who also called himself the "Immortal Widower," gave Nelly jewels from his late wife Eva's collection...
Died. Robert Riskin, 58, top screenwriter, who teamed with Director Frank Capra (1931-38) to turn out Lost Horizon, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It with You, winner of an Academy Award in 1934 for It Happened One Night, husband of oldtime Cinemactress Fay Wray; after being partially paralyzed from a stroke since 1950; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
Shigenobu Shima, Minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary of Japan to the United States, presented the Order of the Sacred Treasure to Mrs. Warner. The award was conferred by the Emperor of Japan...