Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shahn and Abstract-Expressionist Willem De Kooning. A two-man affair by deliberate museum decision, it made for a forceful though far from representative showing. Shahn, whose art had its roots in proletarian fury and has now become fashionable, topped the list of lesser prizewinners with an $800 award. Many exhibitors, notably those of the Iron Curtain countries, seemed stifled by their messages. Shahn, on the contrary, is lost without one. Shahn's earliest work on exhibition was a wonderfully gentle idealization of Sacco and Vanzetti done...
Buttons will undoubtedly be back, but the award-winning Your Show of Shows said goodbye forever. The five-year-old revue was one of the few shows to run 1½ hours and was notable for raising Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca to stardom, for television pioneering in ballet and opera, for its parodies of U.S. and foreign films, and for pantomime sketches. Both Caesar and Coca will appear next year in their own separate TV shows, while veteran Producer-Director Max Liebman will take on the new job of overseeing NBC's big color TV spectacles planned...
Last week Freshman Howard Graves, 24, co-winner of a "Most Valuable Player" award this spring, was out on bail after a 19-year-old M.S.C. coed accused him of rape. Otherwise, said Coach Hugh ("Duff") Daugherty, "our squad's behavior is as good as any in the country." ¶ Finally fed up with an accumulation of ugly incidents, Northwestern University shut down the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity house - the first fraternity ever banned in the university's history. Among the grievances against it: 40% of the brothers are on academic probation; eight have been suspended from school...
...target, Williams explained, calls for much more skill than the quiet game of golf. "Maybe so," said Sam doubtfully. "But when we hit a foul ball, we've gotta get out there and play it." Another time, when Snead heard that Bing Crosby had just won the Academy Award, he said, "Gee, that's swell. How'd he do it-match or medal play?" After his first big splash in California, Snead saw his picture, a Wirephoto, in the New York Times. He was amazed. "Now how'd they ever get my picture?" he asked...
...statement later, Lewis denounced McCarthy's questioning as an "inquisition." He appears to be interested in my Fulbright Award only to the extent of inquiring into my political opinions and what is even more astonishing, into my wife's politics...