Word: devoto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...During the campaign, both candidates made use of ghosts. Some of Stevenson's: Herbert Agar, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Archibald Mac-Leish, Bernard DeVoto. Samuel Rosenman. James Wechsler. Some of Eisenhower's: Stanley High, Gabriel Hauge, C. D. Jackson, Emmet Hughes...
Judges John P. Marquand '15, Bernard DeVoto '18, and Laurence McKinney '12 named two short stories and a poem, all of which appeared in the Advocate, as runners-up in the competition. Donald O. Stewart, Jr. '53 was cited for his story "Dennis Gray," and Walter Kaiser '54 of Bellevue, Ohio for his poem "Aix-en-Provence." For the first time, a Radcliffe girl was mentioned by the committee. Lily Emmet '54 earned the honor with her story "Friday Philharmonic...
...Bernard DeVoto '18, author of "Across the wide Missouri," won the 1952 National book Award for his "The Course of Empire." He also received the Pulitzer Prize in history. J. P. Marquand '15 got the same award for his book, "The Late George Apply." Laurence McKinney '12, a steel executive, is author of "Lines of Least Resistance" and other light poetry...
...American book publishing industry announced its honor list, the National Book Awards. Fiction: Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man); nonfiction: Bernard DeVoto (The Course of Empire); poetry: Archibald MacLeish (Collected Poems...
...Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union then decided to bring the case out into the open and fight it. By prearrangement, Bernard DeVoto, accompanied by his attorney and two Vice Squad detectives, purchased a copy of Strange Fruit in the Harvard Law Book Exchange. The proprietor of the Exchange was brought into a lower court where he was found guilty of selling "obscene" material and fined $200. Upon appeal, Superior Court justices upheld the lower body's decision, but only with some reluctance. Unfortunately, under the old law the higher court was permitted only to review the actual conduct of the previous...