Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concerning your article on the New York-Florida award to Northeast [Aug. 20]: For the past couple of years we have been pretty generally laughed at, with many people telling us we could never win because we were weak, too small, and other less complimentary reasons. Having done what some claim to be the impossible, it is a little discouraging to find TIME publishing an article that is a little hard to accept by the people to whom your top executives trust their lives as they commute in Northeast's "aging and early model airplanes...
Britain's Earl of Sandwich, 81. whose noble ancestor, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, is credited with inventing the sandwich in the 18th century, accepted an award from the U.S.'s National Pickle Packers Association in recognition of the service that the sandwich has rendered to the consumption of pickles...
...part of the curriculum. The principal of Delaware's Bridgeville Consolidated School reported that his visiting Scot was "so delightful" that even his kilt was accepted "without gibes from the males and with downright enthusiasm by the females." In Gig Harbor, Wash, a high-school student won an award in the Betty Crocker "American Homemaker of Tomorrow" contest, took her British home-economics teacher along on the winning trip to Washington, D.C., Williamsburg and Philadelphia. "It was," said the Briton later, "one of those things that could only have happened in this fabulous country...
Matinee has been bought by such sponsors as Bab-O, Motorola TV and Tide, but it has never been a sponsor sellout. However, prestige-conscious NBC is so happy with its plaything that it has booked Matinee for a second year, with a $5,000,000 budget. An "Emmy" Award winner ("Best contribution to daytime programming"), Matinee currently gets more than 2,000 letters a month, last week vaulted into the top slot of daytime dramatic-show ratings...
...Manhattan-born, Yale-educated cousin of Novelist J. P. Marquand. With his mother, the late Mrs. Margaret Fuller, Art Patron Fuller put up $300,000 in 1933 to build Seattle's hilltop museum. Fuller has served as president and full-time director ever since. In return, Seattle awarded him its first "Man of the Year" civic-service award...