Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Color Shots. Novelist King, 33, who spent a winter on Corfu with the Somerset Maugham Award money received for his last novel, The Dividing Stream, has scraped the marrow of his Greek characters. He recognizes their fortitude under real pain, their histrionics over emotional trifles and their bristling pride. Above all, he captures their gift for draining each passing moment of life as if it were a glass of their own villainous retsina wine. Author King overexposes and underdevelops his hapless English hero, but his color shots of Corfu are snapped with the eye of a Matisse, and Patrick...
Anna Magnani, of "The Rose Tattoo," won an Oscar as best actress of the year, while Ernest Borgnine, "Marty," was voted the best actor. Jo Van Fleet gained an award as best supporting actress for her role in "East of Eden...
John U. Lemmon, III '47, a former HDC star, won an Oscar Wednesday as the best supporting actor of 1955. He received the award for his portrayal of Ensign Pulver in "Mr. Roberts...
...quiz shows last week were still handing out the cash. On NBC's The Big Surprise, Rear Admiral Redfield Mason, U.S.N., 51, on active duty at Brooklyn's Navy Yard, broke through for the top award of $100,000 by naming six groups of women from Greek and Roman fables. And William and James Egan, a pair of outsized* lawyers from Hartford, Conn., were poised only a step away from the jackpot of CBS's The $64,000 Question...
Biggest, brawlingest and richest ($7,975 in prizes) local art annual in the U.S. is held by Chicago's Art Institute. Last week, as usual, Chicago's 59th annual blew up in a storm of local outrage. Reason: of the 24 cash awards (picked from 2,027 works submitted), 18 went to relative unknowns, e.g., the top painting award ($1,500) was won by Canadian-born Anna P. Baker, 27 and two years out of art school, for a hectic, minutely squiggled abstractionist canvas titled High Frequency Ping. Almost every big-name Chicago artist finished...