Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago the Tribune, unwilling to yield to Eastern superiority, vigorously contested Edna's award of what it called "the world's championship for disgustingly filthy cities." The Trib's contention: "She should see our rats . . . rub our air between thumb and forefinger . . . inspect our alleys. Only then should she undertake to award her grand prize, and we know who would win it, hands down...
...technical training, his alma mater will get a gift of $3,000. That, said Bethlehem, is to help pay the college back for what it spends on giving a student four years of education. ¶Lincoln University near Oxford, Pa., the first Negro institution in the world to award collegiate degrees, decided on a shift of policy. Since Negroes have gained admittance to so many white campuses recently, said President Horace Mann Bond, Lincoln (enrollment: 315) will reciprocate, open its doors to "all races." ¶Resignation of the week: Earl J. McGrath, 50, as U.S. Commissioner of Education (after four...
Collier's editor than as the author of four books about U.S. Negroes, which have won him considerable critical acclaim as well as a Julius Rosenwald fellowship and the $2,500 George Washington Carver award. Moon, who is often mistakenly thought to be a Negro because of his writing, for ten years was an editor at Doubleday & Co.; six months ago he joined Collier's staff...
Music: a double award, to CBS's New York Philharmonic and to NBC's regional Standard Symphony broadcast (and recently telecast) to eleven Western states...
ENTERTAINMENT: a double award, to NBC's Mister Peepers ("Wally Cox . . . is a genuinely funny man") and to NBC's Your Hit Parade ("consistent good taste . . . and technical perfection...