Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Including Walter Lippmann, Heywood Broun, John Reed, Stuart Chase, Alan Seeger. *Eliot's avowed admiration for Pound (who "discovered" him) has provoked bitter criticism. Last year, a jury of Fellows in American Letters of the U.S. Library of Congress, including T. S. Eliot, awarded the annual $1,000 Bollingen Prize for the "highest achievement of American poetry" to Ezra Pound (TIME, Feb. 28, 1949), who was then in an insane asylum and under indictment for treason (he had spent the war in Italy as propaganda broadcaster for Mussolini). Some critics attacked Eliot as being chiefly responsible for the award...
Such is the "major financial aid problem" which the College faces. Higher cost of education has made scholarship money less effective and has made more people need scholarships. Lower qualifying requirements make twice as many men eligible for scholarship award. The losing of the GI Bill means reliance solely on College funds, and numerous students who entered the College on a gamble will be forced to leave unless they get some kind...
...great many people are pleased with "My Foolish Heart." Samuel Goldwyn, the producer, is happy: despite adverse reviews, this, his latest product, is making a heap of money. The Academy Award nominating board is happy: the movie's heroine, Susan Hayward, has been nominated for the best actress of the year. The manager of the Astor Theater is happy: not only is his theater well-filled even on afternoons, but his floor is so well-washed with tears that it must need only a dry mop at the end of the day. And, of course, the audience this film...
...work in "Fallen Idol," Carrol Reed received the Poll's award for the best director...
...fortune. Two men insisted that they were her illegitimate sons. Manhattan courts spent almost a year and a half in sorting out improper claims and weighing evidence. To disprove the claims, lawyers produced a family tree on a chart 32 feet long. Last week her estate was award ed to her cousin, Hollis Gale, her closest of kin, and one of the few people who had ever tried to befriend...