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Second and third prize went to a couple of propagandists in paint: second to Boston's perpetually angry young Jack Levine for his bitter Welcome Home (TIME, May 20), a mottled-looking general at a misty banquet; third to William Cropper's muddy, violent Don Quixote No. i, a starved white horse and black-armored rider careening past theatrical rocks...
Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder should have known better. At the Financial World's, Annual Report Awards Banquet in Manhattan last week, he blithely asked the assembled businessmen for "constructive criticisms...
...audience was outspoken Robert R. Young, there to receive an "Oscar of industry" for the 1945 report of his Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. As Young rose to accept the award, he also accepted Snyder's invitation. When his speech (and the banquet) ended some four minutes later, a red-faced Mr. Snyder got up at once and angrily walked...
ICCASP had proved its ability to pull crowds into huge New York and Los Angeles rallies, to lure money-heavy political angels into glittering banquet rooms. A bright, diminutive 35-year-old ex-newspaperwoman named Hannah Dorner, who affectionately calls ICCASP members "glamor pusses," handled most of its promotion stunts with a hardheaded competency in Manhattan's Astor Hotel, overlooking Broadway. Nevertheless, the committee could still be expected to cut didoes...
...Traditionally the King's Champion rode on horseback into the coronation banquet hall, flung down a gauntlet, challenged anyone to challenge the new king's right to the throne. No one ever has. The ceremony was last enacted at the coronation of William...