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...Beer. 4. Plum pudding...
Most lucrative plum--the George B. Sohier Prize, worth $250 for the "best thesis by a successful candidate for honors in English or Modern Literature"--went to McArthur for his essay "Saints in Ambush." Haas was awarded the Susan Anthony Potter Prize--$75--for his essay "The Monk and Don Juan" in the field of Spanish Literature of the Golden...
...plumpest literary plum of World War II-the memoirs of Winston Churchill-fell this week to LIFE and the New York Times. It was prize fruit of massive size (projected as five volumes, 1,000,000 words), and many a newspaper, syndicate and magazine broker had hopefully shaken the tree. The price for the U.S. serial rights Churchill kept to himself, but gossips had been guessing for more than a year that his remembrances would sell for a record $1,000,000 or more...
...from my dear old home you come, And all its glories you can name; Oh tell me-has the winter plum Yet blossomed o'er the window frame...
Last; week some 25,000,000 Japanese trudged to drab, dank schoolhouses and temples, brightened here & there with red and pink plum blossoms and fragrant daphne. For the first time they were electing their local officials-village and town headmen and mayors, prefectural governors (previously, local administrators have been appointed by Tokyo...