Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...award as TV's best actress, Polly Bergen outpolled such veteran rivals as the theater's Helen Hayes and the movies' Teresa Wright, an achievement that could be explained only by the fast-developing herd instinct of telefolk that leads them to stick with their own. Polly's reputation has blossomed principally through coaxial cables. Neither Hollywood nor Broadway was impressed with her efforts as singer or actress, but then she signed up for a series of TV commercials for Pepsi-Cola, quickly became known the nation over as the Pepsi Girl. Here and there...
Shower of Stars: After getting his second Emmy of the evening at the award ceremonies last week (see above), Jack Benny asked a prophetically rhetorical question: "Wouldn't it be funny if my next show was lousy?" Shower succeeded in reducing its stars (Janis Paige, John Raitt, Betty Grable) to micrometeor magnitude, often seemed an accidental parody of an early '30s movie musical, lacking only the traditional aerial views of chorus girls sprawling in living floral patterns. Jokes and Chrysler commercials sometimes had interchangeable parts. Cooed Barbara Nichols, playing a scrub girl in a carwash emporium...
Louis M. Lyons, curator of the Nieman Fellowships, received the Lauterbach Award Wednesday for his "outstanding contributions over a period of years in the field of civil liberties...
...making the award, the committee, headed by John Hersey, praised Lyons for providing "a conscience for a whole profession...
...award, given annually for distinguished studies in American history, diplomacy, and international relations, was presented in New York by Grayson Kirk, Columbia's president...