Word: faulkners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edward C. Cumming '54 won the $400 Helen Choate Bell Prize for his essay "William Faulkner: Peasants and Snopeses." Honorable mention went to David M. Kalstone '54 for his paper "Henry James as Social Critic: The Final Vision." The Helen Choate Bell Prize is given "for merit in work in the field of American Literature...
...three: 1) The Silver Chalice, with Virginia Mayo, Pier Angeli, Jack Palance and "a cast of thousands" in Novelist Thomas B. Costain's story about the cup Christ used at the Last Supper; 2) Land of the Pharaohs, which was written for the movies by Nobel Prizewinner William Faulkner; 3) Daniel and the Woman of Babylon, which has not yet been cast...
Suspense (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Faulkner's short story, Smoke, adapted by Gore Vidal...
...rest of the film's pedigree matches its cast. With script by Faulkner from Hemingway's novel and Hawkes as director, there are so many clever lines that even bit players have good roles. This is the "if-you-want-me-just-whistle" and the "Hong Kong Blues" film. It has Bacall at the height of her slinky period and she sings "How Little We Know." It comes to grips with the cosmos and sums it up in the single question "was you ever bit by a dead bee?" There are wise cracks and tough talks with sizzling looks that...
...Oxford, Miss., Mrs. Estelle Faulkner, wife of Novelist William (Sanctuary) Faulkner, disclosed that her husband gave away his 1950 Nobel Prize money. The writer, who is currently in Egypt working on a Warner Bros. CinemaScope movie, Land of the Pharaohs, put the $30,000 into a trust fund to be spent for scholarships and other good works...