Word: awarders
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Massachusetts led the list with 109 residents receiving scholarships. Twelve of these received National Scholarships, the highest award given by the College to incoming freshmen. Only one local student received a Gordon McKay National Scholarship, newly established for men interested in engineering science...
...William Harris Arnold and Gertrude Weld Arnold Prize award of $950 has been given to Ralph Blum, II '54 for an essay entitled "The True Spirit of Book Collecting...
Among the Pulitzer prizes, the top journalistic award is the one to the U.S. newspaper that has rendered the most "meritorious public service." Ever since 1917, when the awards were first made under the will of the late great Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, the "public service" prize has always gone to a daily, usually a big one. This week, for the first time in the history of the prizes, the "public service" award for 1952 went to two country weeklies, published in North Carolina's Columbus County: the Whiteville News Reporter (circ. 5,007) and the Tabor City Tribune (circ...
...Archibald MacLeish, for his Collected Poems, 1917-1952, his second Pulitzer. (His first, in 1933, was for Conquistador.) The Pulitzer committee gave no award for music...
Earlier this year, MacLeish won the National Book Award for the same collection of poems...