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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another problem is that some prizes have long since become dated. The award of approximately $70 for the "best essay on the life, work, or interests of John Ruskin" attracted only two entrants last year. When the award was instituted over 20 years ago, that English author and critic was much more highly regarded than he is today...
Recent college graduates and persons graduating this spring are eligible to apply for the 1950-51 Henry Fellowships which award 600 pounds ($1680) to meet the expenses of working at either of the two English universities...
...Czech government, procuring Messerschmits which were manufactured at a Scoda plant outside of Prague and flown in bigger planes to Palestine. The Israell also operated several Piper cubs, and increased their air power even further when a group of Beaufighters which were to provide the melodrama in an English movie disappeared from their British field and arrived in Israel...
...landed at Philadelphia in November 1910, and Waksman went to stay with a cousin, Molki Kornblatt, and her husband Mendel, on their five-acre farm in Metuchen, N. J. He weeded the vegetable garden, fed the chickens and dug pestholes, while the Kornblatts' children helped him improve his English. Kornblatt gave him some advice which proved decisive: go to see Dr. Jacob Lipman, another Russian immigrant, head of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers...
However, two brave individuals, Richard W. Krakeur and Robert L. Joseph, have produced one of Stringberg's finest plays, "The Father," and have given it such an intelligent production that it seems as if the jinx may at last be broken. Using Mr. Joseph's English version of the play, and with a cast headed by Raymond Massey and Mady Christians, the Messrs. Krakeur and Joseph have provided the theater with one of its most interesting and exciting entertainments in a long while...