Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entirely false and untrue," said her suit (the fifth libel action now pending against Confidential), and exposed her to "disgrace, contempt and ridicule.'' Hollywood Attorney Jerry Giesler, who filed the suit, said his client was not interested in a monetary settlement, would turn over any court award to charity. Her real purpose, said he, was "to defend her good name against the ugly, unfounded and scurrilous attack, ... to discourage this magazine and others of its ilk from making similar unfounded attacks on innocent people." Giesler followed up with a $3,000,500 suit in behalf of Negro Entertainer...
...Waterfront: "Good little action picture, but why it got the Academy Award I will never know."-E. M. F., Dewey, Okla...
...most prolific independent radio and TV package producer in the business. In the 15 years that Cowan has been producing packages-everything from conception and stars to script and sound cues-he has put at least 40 shows on radio and TV and won more than two dozen awards, including the Peabody Award twice. He now has five shows...
William Goyen is bound by ties of good fellowships: the Southwest Review Literary Fellowship in 1948, Guggenheim in 1951 and 1952, the McMurray Award for the best first novel by a Texan, The House of Breath, in 1950. His latest work has two qualities that are likely to pluck at a patron's purse strings:1) it is clearly not written in the hope of making any money; 2) it is so unclearly written and hard to read that some people may conclude that it must...
...sculpture award went to another Italian, 45-year-old Sculptor Mirko, for his bronze, stone and copper figures. Not until the jury got to the 18 lesser awards did a West Coast artist finally score: a purchase award to Kentucky-born San Franciscan Ralph du Casse, 39, for his strong linear abstraction entitled The Viking. The news, when it reached California, all but floored Prizewinner du Casse. Said he: "I'm amazed. I don't paint to sell. That's too much to hope...