Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...success of both series is due largely to Producer Bob Graff, 37, an ex-U.P. reporter who helped put together the award-winning Assignment: India and has worked on the Wisdom series for three years. Graff credits Pat Weaver, sometime president of NBC, with the original idea ("Wouldn't it be great if we could get Michelangelo and Shakespeare on the tube?" Pat said). Of the 26 shows that Graff will run off on consecutive Sundays at 2:30 E.D.T., seven will be entirely new, e.g., visits with Jacques Lipchitz, Igor Stravinsky, Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn...
...Dallas, French Fashion Designer Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, 74, received the Neiman-Marcus Golden Anniversary Award as "the great innovator who emancipated the feminine silhouette," transforming it from undulating, feminine curves to flapper angularities with emphasis on comfort, jersey, pearls, the triangular scarf, the pleated skirt, shawls, colored gloves for night parties, and cloche hats for that come-hither look -and Chanel No. 5 for that come-hither smell. In a baffling statement of first principles, the woman who banished the waistline, eliminated hips and deflated the bosom, announced: "The most important thing is to look feminine." Confusing the issue still...
...that the U.S., while not abandoning its friendship with Israel, ought to concentrate upon repairing and rebuilding its friendship with the Arab states. So skillful was his handling of the crisis of Iran's Mohammed Mossadegh that President Eisenhower gave him the State Department's Distinguished Service Award for "courage and leadership during a dangerously unsettled period, for wisdom and unfailing patience in the course of complex negotiations...
...came off the press last week, a Page One box proclaimed: YOU CAN GET CASH BECAUSE WE ERRED. Underneath, the News admitted that the map in that day's magazine section was all wrong, offered the reader who sent in the "largest number of correct corrections" a $50 award. Total number of replies, 1,014, largest number of corrections offered...
Such language suggests that Author Morris, who won last year's $1,000 National Book Award for The Field of Vision (TIME, Oct. 15), may be fed up with modest awards and cozy coteries of readers. In his eleventh novel, he seems to be aiming at a larger audience, possibly including those who read Playboy and Confidential. He may succeed, for he is an extraordinarily versatile writer. In The Works of Love, he sounded like Sherwood Anderson; The Huge Season rang with persistent echoes of F. Scott Fitzgerald; this time he handles sex and violence in the manner...