Word: prize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Surprise shivered the book world last week, when the winner of the annual $1,000 (plus publicity) Pulitzer Prize for the best novel of 1928 was unofficially revealed to be a novel called Victim and Victor, by a man named John Rathbone Oliver. Wise literary prophets had been forecasting winners and raising authorial hopes, but none had mentioned Victim and Victor. It was a literary dark horse blacker than night...
...Pulitzer awards are not officially announced until May. Dr. Richard Burton, chairman of the prize jury, let slip the news about Author Oliver's book in a lecture on "Types of Contemporary Literature" at the University of Minnesota. Upton Sinclair's Boston would have been a winner, he said, but for its "socialistic tendencies...
Engaged. James Roosevelt, Harvard College junior, son of Governor and Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York; to Betsy Cushing of Brookline, Mass., daughter of Dr. Harvey Cushing, leading U. S. surgeon and 1925 Pulitzer Prize biographer (The Life of Sir William Osier...
...Reardon '32. R. H. Simonds '32 and A. A. Windecker '32, together with Arnold Isenberg '32, alternate, constitute the team which will face the Yale orators at New Haven. At the trials on April 5 Simonds was awarded the prize of $50 offered to the man making the best speech on the question which will be discussed tonight...
After taking his M.A. at Harvard and studying under Ernest Bloch, Thompson was in 1922 awarded the Rome Prize and subsequently spent three years in composition at the American Academy in Rome...