Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mezzo Linda McNaughton of the Fair Lady chorus (and recent award winner in the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air) added her voice to both roles as the spirit moved her. Most of the singers are in their 20s, and all of them are good-looking and enthusiastic about the training they are getting. "They think singing A Masked Ball in private." says Allers, "makes them sing My Fair Lady better in public...
...closed out at the end of 1955. Knowing that the company's application was still on file, Virginia's Democratic Senator A. Willis Robertson, chairman of the Joint Defense Production Committee, had asked ODM not to grant the write-off until the committee investigated. In granting the award, ODM Director Gordon Gray said that no commitment had been made to the committee, attributed the delay to the fact that the Hells Canyon case was bogged down in litigation until the Supreme Court ruling. But since Idaho Power had already gone ahead with construction to the extent...
Warren, who is a professor in the English department at Yale University, and also teaches in the drama school received the Pulitzer prize for his novel "All the King's Men," in 1946; and the Screen Writers Guild award for his motion picture adaptation...
...another unprecedented citation, the trustees of Columbia University gave the biography award to a member of Congress, Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.), for his "Profiles in Courage...
...founder of Taoism, that inspiration comes in a flash and cannot be long sustained, the Ch'an painter worked in monochrome "as if a whirlwind possessed his hand." Greatest of them all was Liang K'ai, who had won the Emperor's highest painting award, the Golden Girdle, before he retired to a Buddhist monastery. He dashed off such inspired sketches as his Ink Brushing of an Immortal, showing a monk tearing off his shirt to prove the indifference of the enlightened man to outward appearances...