Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outstanding services in the struggle against warmongers and for the strengthening of peace." Baritone Paul Robeson received the International Stalin Peace Prize for 1952 (complete with diploma showing a picture of Joe Stalin) in ceremonies in Manhattan. The award, good for $25,000 in cash, would have been tendered in Moscow if the State Department had let Robeson make the journey. The substitute presentation of what Communist Author Howard Fast called "the highest award which the human race can bestow upon one of its members" was described by the Daily Worker: ". . . There was a hush as the medal, with Stalin...
Omission is, however, no sin in a book which encompasses so much so well. The Harvard Prize Book Committee should consider the Harvard Book for this year's award, for reading it will surely self the University to prospective applicants. And to those whose interest in the University has already been whetted, The Harvard Book will be a prized possession...
...Army last week announced a $200 million contract award to General Motors for building M48 medium tanks, now being built by both G.M. and Chrysler. G.M.'s bid was 12% below that of Chrysler, which will continue building the tanks at Newark, Del. until next April. In line with Defense Secretary Charles E. Wil son's "single, efficient producer"concept, G.M. will become the nation's sole producer of tanks by next spring, having al ready won the bidding for the M41 light tank. Future orders for heavy tanks, such as the T-43, will also...
...Hammarskjold satisfied cooler U.S. minds by announcing that he would not rehire the four singled out by the tribunal, would award them damages instead. In all, the procedure may cost the U.N. between $135,000 and $185,000. But the U.S. Government, at any rate, seemed to feel it was worth that to keep such critters out of the international woodwork...
James Thurber's The Unicorn in the Garden, Willie the Kid, and the Academy-Award-winning Gerald McBoing-Boing...