Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flaunting his dog's conviction that he was a lot more of a dog than the other finalists-the boxer, the bloodhound, the English setter, the standard poodle and the Sealyham. The judge's vote made Wilber the first toy dog ever to win the high award. He may have looked like a useless household ornament, but to his owner, Long Island Dog Breeder Bertha Smith, he is a practical animal indeed. Said she proudly: "Wilber's stud fee will jump from...
...called The Most Beautiful Girl in the World, may appear on Thursday nights in place of The Johnny Carson Show, and seems aimed at bringing the format of Atlantic City's Miss America contest to TV with the added bait of a $250,000 cash award...
Eight years ago, when he won the prized French critics' award for his gruesome oils of skinned rabbits, skinny chickens and harsh still-lifes, Bernard Buffet was a gaunt and gangling youth of 20 who personified postwar misery and despair. Lacking canvas, he painted on his mother's sheets. He lived in a narrow, unheated room and went to the Louvre "not to look at the pictures but to keep warm." Last week a plumper Bernard Buffet, nattily turned out in English tweeds, rolled up to Paris' fashionable Drouant-David Gallery in his chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce...
...Manhattan, tweedy Poet W. H. Auden, 48, rose to thank the nation's publishers and bookdealers for bestowing a National Book Award on his sacred and profane volume, The Shield of Achilles. Said he: "What, in the name of profit, dear foolish publishers, kind unworldly booksellers, am I doing here? . . . You will never make enough [out of me] to pay the wages of one incompetent typist . . . For your award . . . my thanks; for the dollars I shall never bring you, my apologies...
James B. Conant '14, President Emeritus, has been given the Charles Lathrop Parsons Award by the American Chemical Society, for outstanding public service. The award is given every three years to a chemist or chemical engineer who has been active in public service activities. The major feature of award is the privilege of choosing the recipient of a $2000 scholarship for graduate study...