Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...language is the same as that used in a 1936 award to George M. Cohan. It prevents the recipient from having the privileges of the floor of the House of Representatives, which in the cases of Cohan and Berlin was considered "neither necessary nor appropriate...
When a federal jury in Manhattan awarded $175,001 to Reporter Quentin Reynolds in his libel suit against Westbrook Pegler, it intended to punish Columnist Pegler and his publishing sponsors within the court's jurisdiction. It had deliberated more than twelve hours over the charge of Judge Edward Weinfeld pointing out the difference between punitive damages and "compensatory" damages, i.e., those to make up for any loss in Reynolds' earning power. Said the court: "Where it is established that a defendant was inspired by actual malice . . . the jury may award . . . punitive damages ... or 'spite money...
...week's end Defense Counsel Charles Henry argued that the verdict should be set aside because the award was excessive in view of the token compensatory damages. One of the troubles, he implied, was that Pegler's rambunctious courtroom manner had a poor effect on the jury. Replied Reynolds' attorney, Louis Nizer: "In a day when [reckless] extremities of certain writers have caused a serious problem, [we require] just such a lesson...
Leon Kirchner is little known outside an energetic circle of highbrow musicians, but he is one of the most promising U.S. composers. At 35 he has won his share of prizes, among them a $5,000 award from the University of California, a National Institute of Arts and Letters award, a Walter W. Naumburg Foundation award, two Guggenheim fellowships, the imposing New York Music Critics Circle award...
Died. Don Hollenbeck, 49, scholarly-voiced CBS radio and TV news commentator (Sunday News Special) ; by his own hand (gas); in Manhattan. Old Newsman Hollenbeck (the Omaha Bee-News, A.P.), was a World War II correspondent for NBC, won a special Polk memorial award for distinguished reporting as a commentator on CBS Views the News (1947-50), once got suspended for a month by ABC for remarking after a commercial (for Marlin Blades) : "The atrocity you have just heard is not a part of this program...