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John H. Updike '54, winner of this year's Dana Reed Prize for published writing, will receive the second prize of $300 for his essay on "Herrick's Echoes of Horace." Third in the undergraduate division was Robert L. Larsen '54, who will be awarded $100. Honorable Mention was given to John G. Benedict...
John H. Updike '54, former president of the Lampoon, has won this year's Dana Reed Prize for the best writing in an undergraduate publication...
...judges for this year's Dana Reed prize were Jean Stafford, novelist, Louis Kronenberger, novelist and critic, and Edward Streeter, banker and author. The prize itself amounts to $100. It is the only award that is given specifically to encourage undergraduate writing...
...other three components of the film, Dinah Shore's singing takes second by default; but her acting, as a saucy WAC, is indifferent at best. Served up by Dana Andrews and Virginia Mayo, the romance is undigestible and the buffet of Goldwyn girls clad in turquoise and pink pedal-pushers is not the most authentic picture of WAC regiments...
...relations between the main characters are finely graded, and call on the best powers of the actors to express. Dana Andrews responds with his strongest performance in several years. Peter Finch not only fits without a wrinkle into the planter's character but moves through the outlandish manse with such negligent assurance that the audience is convinced that he grew up in it. Elizabeth Taylor, though very beautiful, is too young and inexperienced an actress to fill a role designed for Vivien Leigh...