Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nobel announcement and the resulting political storm, Pasternak said: "I am sorry, I didn't want this to happen, all this noise . . . But I am glad I wrote this book." Months ago Pasternak had told friends: "Stockholm will never happen, since my government will never permit such an award to be given to me. This and much else is hard and sad. But it is these fatalities that give life weight and depth and gravity, and make it extraordinary-rapturous, magical, and real...
Crooner Eddie Fisher, who can use some good publicity these days, set up a $2,000 award in modern music and a $4,000 award for classical music at Brandeis University, both named for banjo-eyed Vaudevillian Eddie Cantor, who gave Fisher his first show-biz break nine years ago. Appointed advisers for the scholarships: Cantor for the modern, dynamic Conductor Leonard Bernstein for the classical...
Named after a former dean of Princeton University, the award consists of $1,000. Whtman received the prize for his book, Homer and the Homeric Tradition, published in June...
...legal scholars, James W. Hurst and George O. Sayles, have received the James Barr Ames Award, the Law School announced today. The prize, established in 1898, is awarded every four years "for a meritorious essay or book on some legal subject...
Hurst, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School will receive his award from President Pusey at a meeting of the Law Faculty on January 13, 1959. The award to Sayles, who is Burnett-Fletcher Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen, will be made by Samuel E. Horne, professor of Legal History...