Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Donald H. Bassist, a librarian at the Business School, won $20,000 last Friday by guessing that Marilyn Monroe would win the 1956 Hollywood Fame Poll Award...
...worked in a hat store, on a truck farm, in a flower shop, and as a doorman, second cook, waiter, beach-comber, bum, and seaman, on the way. In that time he was writing poems too, and a novel, Not Without Laughter, which earned him a $400 award, which was what he had in 1929 when he lost his patron and decided to go to Haiti for a while...
...Committee on the Encouragement of Scholarship announced yesterday that the lota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Radcliffe will award five prizes of $25.00 each this Spring. Three of these prizes will be for original compositions in the fields of Science, Fiction and Social Studies. The remaining two will be for the best original poem and musical composition...
...Newcombe, hapless goat of the Dodger defeat in the World Series, won the first Cy Young Award as the best pitcher in baseball to go with his plaque as National League's Most Valuable Player...
...Perennial Prizewinner Nicholson (TIME, Nov. 19), who won the Carnegie International top award in 1952, was a prizewinner in the 1954 Venice Biennale, and earlier this year won the Grand Prize at the Lugano IV International, the cash was probably as welcome as the credit. Though "delighted by the award," Winner Nicholson was not willing to go far toward helping viewers puzzle out the meaning of his serene grey, white and dull-brown forms. He would say only that Val d'Orcia is in Tuscany, adding abstractly: "Of course I should say that the color and shape, for color...