Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea in 1953), was "trapped" in an unusually overexposed pose last June by a Turkish photographer in Istanbul. Wailed she then: "A terrible blow -and just when I've been studying Shakespeare four hours a day." Scandalmongering Rave magazine soon got around to handing Terry its "Lady Bum" award for her "hypocritical display of outraged modesty." Last week, feeling degraded and maligned. Terry entered the lists of Hollywood stars tilting with the sewer sheets (TIME, July 11), lanced Rave with a $2,000,000 libel suit...
...splattered through her supper, grumped at cards, slashed about the kitchen with a carving knife or preened luridly in a grown-up's party dress, the wound of adolescence opened slowly on the stage for all to see. At season's end she got a Donaldson award as the year's best supporting actress. A year later she went to Hollywood to make the movie version...
...AMERICAN POLICY will be toughened up to double the price edge given some U.S. firms competing with foreign companies for Government contracts. Instead of the previous 6% differential, the Interior Department will award future contracts only to foreign firms that underbid U.S. companies in surplus labor areas by 12% or more. The Defense Department and General Services Administration, which do most of the business with overseas firms, will probably follow the new ground rules...
...Smith appealed the decision to the State Supreme Court and won a reversal. In 1948, after an ex-G.I. had been killed in an auto collision with a man just acquitted of bootlegging charges, she roasted the jury for leniency; the editorial won the year's top award of the National Federation of Press Women...
Editor Smith ran the story-along with the fact that she had not been able to reach Sheriff Byrd for a statement. The next week, with Byrd still silent, she front-paged an editorial that won her the second top award from the Federation of Press Women: "The laws in America are for everyone-rich and poor, strong and weak, white and black. The vast majority of Holmes County people are not rednecks who look with favor on the abuse of people because their skins are black. Byrd has violated every concept of justice, decency and right...