Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Campus. The honors kept rolling in on Bob Mathias, culminating in the Sullivan Award as the nation's most outstanding amateur athlete. Bob was besieged with offers of athletic scholarships. But Dr. Mathias, who can afford not to accept such offers, firmly turned thumbs down. "I wanted Robert to go to school with no strings attached," Dr. Mathias explains. "They should give the scholarships to boys who can't afford to pay their...
...Paris, U.S. Ambassador James Dunn presented the widow of Marshal of France Jean de Lattre de Tassigny the posthumous award of the Legion of Merit for "sustained combat operations in the struggle against Communism...
...Ernest T. Weir, who has fought the national union, handed out a bigger raise (16?) to the 13,000 members of his independent union, who hadn't struck. Murray, picking off smaller mills one at a time, last week claimed that 50 plants had granted the full WSB award. But these plants produce only 15% of U.S. capacity...
With the next episode, called A Woman of Sin, Hecht moves more successfully from the area of theatrical cloak & dagger to cinematic tongue in cheek. A Woman of Sin is the title of a trashy novel which is turned into an Academy Award-contending movie without the studio's discovering until too late that the author of this "great story of animal love" is a precocious, pixyish nine-year-old girl. As the beribboned, towheaded authoress, Jenny Hecht takes smoothly to her father's direction. Also participating in this fancifully frothy lampoon of Hollywood: Alan Reed...
Mike Zelsmith, film producer, is on the skids. It is years since he won his last Academy Award. His marriage is heading for the breakers while he guzzles Scotch on the rocks. Fed up with Mike's arty epics and domestic antics, his movie magnate father-in-law cuts off his bank credit. The Hollywood gripevine says that Mike Zelsmith, whom "even intellectuals respect," is about to make his first "quickie," a $300,000 thriller...