Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Picture-conscious in a big way since its Wirephoto service was founded in 1935, the Associated Press hopefully submitted many a print to the second annual National News-Photo Contest run by Editor & Publisher, newsmen's trade weekly. Last week the magazine's judges announced the winners: first, John Lindsay for Working on the Levee, a rhythmic frieze of Negro convicts toting sandbags in February's flood; second, James Keen for Lowland Madonna, another flood scene of a young refugee nursing her baby; third, Edward O'Haire for J. P. Morgan Listens, a shot taken...
...Keen could collect their $100 and $50 prizes (to be taken either in cash or photographic equipment), an unfortunate complication arose: Working on the Levee and Lowland Madonna were declared ineligible. Editor & Publisher suddenly remembered that the Ohio-Mississippi flood occurred this year, not last, and that the contest had been limited to 1936 pictures. Apologizing handsomely, Editor & Publisher moved J. P. Morgan Listens up into first place and named two others for second and third. These were: second, an International News Photo re-enacted shot, by the New York Mirror's William Stahl, of a policeman blowing into...
...their final game before the crucial Yale contest, the Freshman nine absorbed another defeat, bowing to Phillips Andover Academy yesterday. With the score 6 to 5 in favor of Andover, four runs were scored off pitchers John Woodward and Tom Healey in the last of the eighth, the game ending...
Harry F. Hinckley, Jr. '40 won last night's intra-team contest, with Hall second, and Edward C. K. Read '40 third...
Captain Lawrence V. Bixby, assistant professor of Military Science and Tactics and director of the team, has released a list of men eligible to participate in the contest. They are as follows...