Word: contesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousand dollars will be awarded to the composer of the best quartet submitted before April 1, trustees of the Paderewski Fund for the Encouragement of American Composers announced recently. According to the conditions of the contest the instrumentation is limited to piano and strings, and each piece must take up at least twenty minutes of playing time...
...reasons for refusing to get excited. Few voters believed that there would be any contest on Election Day. Two out of three, according to a Gallup poll last week, thought New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey could not possibly be beaten. Moreover, the electioneering had not developed into the kind of nerve-jangling jihad to which the country had grown accustomed since...
...Alexander J. Derouin, a gardener, defeated 158 women entrants in a Connecticut Grange cookie-making contest. Said he: "It's self-preservation. My wife is a lecturer for the Grange, president of the American Legion auxiliary and a member of a dozen clubs. If I couldn't cook, I'd starve...
After trying their hand at improving everything from paper clips to superliners, U.S. industrial designers finally got around to their fellow beings. At a Manhattan meeting of the Society of Industrial Designers last week, they held a contest to design a "functional man," or, as they put it, "an animal which would be a better solution to the very environmental problems which man has created...
Three men from the Government Department--Assistant Professor Charles R. Cherington, Robert G. McCloskey, and Romylos C. Macridis--judged the contest here...