Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year's two $50 first prizes went to Nicholas Verden '51 and J. David Baumann '51. The former recited the Allocution by Pope Pius XII on the arrest of Cardinal Josef Mindszenty, and the latter chose Ulysses' speech on order from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida...
...find crusading Paul Douglas leading the attack on the Dixiecrats' filibuster over civil rights. But his choices have often been harder than that, as when John Bricker slyly added an anti-segregation amendment to the housing bill. Torn between two causes he believes in, Douglas characteristically chose the immediate issue of housing and blasted the amendment for what it was: an attempt to kill the bill by rousing the Southerners against...
...tryouts for important debates were also unfair, the letter continues, because the president selected the judges and then competed in them himself. The letter charges furthermore that the president chose judges who knew him well...
...named Broderick Crawford in All the King's Men and Olivia de Havilland (for the second year in a row) for her work in The Heiress. The critics' honors for direction went to Carol Reed's staging of The Fallen Idol. Ignoring actresses, the National Board chose Ralph Richardson as the best performer, for his roles in both The Fallen Idol and The Heiress, and singled out De Sica for the director's kudos...