Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prize includes an award of $2,000. Honorable mention went to Cedric H. Whitman, associate professor of Greek and Latin, for his book, Homer and the Heroic Tradition, which will be published on June 13. The fourth annual Prize will be awarded next spring...
Religiously, Putney is a secular school. There is no chapel. On Sunday evening a speaker discusses questions dealing with religion, ethics, or philosophy, but there is little mention of formal religion or God. Skepticism prevails, and faith is not considered a part of life by most of the student body...
...Francisco's KGO-TV, which believes that disk jockeys should stick to their musical saddles, told Sherwood to shut up about the Indians. He sulked. "Somebody got to somebody," he said during his TV variety show, "and I can't mention the Navajos . . ." Click! and he was off the air, replaced by a traffic safety film. He fought back on his morning radio show over rival KSFO, playing Indian music and calling KSFO "Radio Free San Francisco...
...Censor's Scoop. Some of the censors helped. One agency, blessed with an ex-newsman as a censor, put him to work calling ministries for check points. The first news the Associated Press got of trouble on Corsica came when a censor declared that any mention of the uprising there was forbidden. The Paris A.P. desk got a call through to its stringer on the island before communications were cut off, put the story on the U.S. wire (which was not censored) for a solid 15-minute beat...
...wife 1) said she was 32 but is actually 47, 2) claimed to be a secret federal agent but is actually a dance-hall girl, 3) alleged widowhood although her former husband is alive in Texas, 4) told him about her ten-year-old child but forgot to mention the ones...