Word: contesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past two years the top prize money for U.S. artists has been not the famed Carnegie International but Pepsi-Cola's "Portrait of America" contest. But Pepsi-Cola's President Walter S. Mack Jr. has not been a happy man. Try as he did to stay behind the curtains and let a group of painters run the show, painters and critics alike seemed inclined to gang up on him as a soda-pop Medici, a bumbling Borgia (TIME...
Last week Mack, complaining that he had "been in the hands of others," announced a new strategy for giving away $25,750 a year without getting slapped for doing it. Pepsi's 1946 contest will have a new name: "Paintings of the Year" (to avoid the taunts of jingoism that "Portrait of America" got); a new director: balding, milk-mild Roland McKinney, ex-director of Los Angeles' County Museum. There will still be plenty of prize money ($15,250), but also seven "fellowships in painting" ($10,500), so that winners can go and do better...
...thirteenth of the season, (as against one defeat), made no difference to the Crimson; led by Wyndol Gray with 24 points and Lou Decsi with 21, the Stahlmen had little trouble with the hapless Engineers. The game was a fairly exact duplicate of the first contest between the two teams ten days ago, which the Stahlmen took by a 68 to 47 margin...
...only bad moment came midway in the first half, when left guard Saul Mariaschin went out of the game with a deep cut over his eye. As in the Yale game, however, he came right back in the second half to sew up what was left of the contest...
...high of 269. With four games yet to play, he should have little trouble topping Tony Lavelli's 15-game total of 320. His average of 19.2 points per game also puts him within hailing distance of Yale's Freshman ace, whose season average is 21.3 per contest...