Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist Author Howard (Citizen Tom Paine, Freedom Road) Fast, seven of whose books were taken off U.S. overseas-library shelves last year, was awarded a Stalin Peace Prize (value: about $25,000, taxfree) for "helping to strengthen the cause of peace between the peoples." "Surprised and bewildered," Author Fast observed that it was "the highest honor that can be conferred on any person in these times," and that he hoped "this award will contribute further to the struggle for peace...
...Brooklyn Dodger Second Baseman James ("Junior") Gilliam, who hit .278, fielded .976, led the league in triples (17) and drew 100 bases on balls, as a lead-off batter, was named the National League's Rookie of the Year, the fifth Negro in a row to win the award. Runnerup: St. Louis Cardinal Pitcher Harvey Haddix, who won 20 games, lost...
Unfinished Business. In Seattle, after divorcing her husband Ernest, Leida E. Arnone asked the judge to award her his carpenter's tools, got them after explaining that she still had to finish building the family house...
...past dozen years, honors have been heaped upon Grandma Moses. Russell Sage College made her an honorary doctor of humane letters ("Only they didn't let me keep the cap"). She has been given the keys to the city of Albany. President Truman once presented her with an award ("I talked with him, and I could not think but that he was one of my own boys"). General Eisenhower sent her a card from Europe reading: "For Grandma Moses, a real artist, from a rank amateur...
...colossal movie "premiere" of the week was Sam Goldwyn's The Best Years of Our Lives, Academy Award winner of 1946. Goldwyn announced that he will reissue his old movie in January for wide-screen exhibition...