Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Carter Brown '56, of Eliot House and Providence, has been awarded the Lt. Charles Henry Fiske III scholarship for a year's study at Trinity College in Cambridge, England. The award also carries a grant for travel in Europe during vacations...
...arrive in bales. Her next three pictures (Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire) were box-office blockbusters. At the end of 1953, according to the trade press, she had made more money for her studio than any other actress in Hollywood. She also won the Photoplay Award as the year's most popular actress...
...photogenic face and a beautiful smile, she is a nearly perfect subject for a documentary movie, and the commentary, with fine taste held to an unadulatory key and spoken by Katharine Cornell, needs to do little more than provide for continuity. Helen Keller in Her Story won an Academy Award, and deserved...
Touch and Go, in contrast, is not the sort of movie that will ever win an award. A pleasant though unpretentious British domestic comedy, the film concerns itself with a furniture designer who throws up his job and decides to pack up his family and emigrate to Australia. His plan begins to flounder when the family cat runs away and when, three days before the sailing, his teen-age daughter falls desperately in love. None of this, of course, has any great dramatic value, but it is frequently fun to watch. As the furniture designer, Jack Hawkins shows some talent...
...Carter Brown '56 of Eliot House and Providence received this year's Paul Revere Frothingham Scholarship for "excellent scholarship, manliness, and effective support of the interests of Harvard." This award is given in memory of a graduate in the Class of 1886. Brown is president of the Glee Club and a member of the Eliot House Drama Group...