Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read. He asked Briggs for a volume of Shakespeare's works and a book on his hobby, harmony and composition, in addition to the Bible that Briggs brought for him. Ironically, Briggs also brought the first word to Oatis that the Overseas Press Club in the U.S. had awarded him the George Polk Memorial Award for "courage, integrity and enterprise"-for the same kind of reporting that the Reds had called "spying." The State Department cautiously pointed out that the interview should not be construed as indicating that Oatis was any nearer to regaining his freedom than before...
...Foundation was established by Congress in 1948 to award scholarship aid to students entering graduate work. Priest noted last night that Conant supported the Foundation Scholarship plan in testimony before the committee...
...trustees of Columbia University gave Handlin the award, and the $500 that goes with it, for his history of American immigration--"The Uprooted Handlin's work is a popularized history of American settlement...
Columbia trustees have honored six other University history professors in the past. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38 won an award in 1948 for "The Age of Jackson." Pulitzer Prizes have also gone to James P. Baxter, III '14 for "Scientists Against Time," 1942; Paul H. Buck for "The Road to Reunion," in 1938; Frederick J. Turner for "The Significance of Sections in American History," 1933; Edward Channing for volume six of "The History of the United States," 1926; and Charles H. Mcllwain, professor emeritus, for "The American Revolution...
...audience rating of Celanese Theater, which this week won a 1952 Peabody Award (see above), has suffered because the show (alternate Weds. 10 p.m., ABC) has played opposite such attractions as the fights between Jake LaMotta & Gene Hairston, Sugar Ray Robinson & Rocky