Word: pedersen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Luck. His name was Pedersen. He had signed his first poems "Hamsund," after his family farm, but a careless printer dropped the final 'd' off an early byline and he stuck to the misprinted name for luck. Meatpacker Armour's $25 was one of Knut Hamsun's rare breaks in the U.S.; in 1888, he returned to Norway to write of his disenchantment with the U.S. of booming stockyards and cornlands. He had found no cultural life in the U.S., only "prudishness, self-complacent ignorance," and "patriotism engendered by tin fifes...
...Arts and Sciences, will receive awards this Friday at 12:30 p.m., in the Faculty Room. To Vincent E. Starsinger '50 will go the James Gordon Bennet Prize; to Alfred Arnovitz '51, the Philo Sherman Bennet Prize; to Stephen M. Schwebel '50, the Chase Prize; to Richard F. Pedersen, 3G, the Sumner Prize; and to Carl E. Schorske, candidate for PhD. this June, the Toppan Prize. These awards, given for theses, consist of incomes from invested funds...