Word: prize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inquisitive Second Clarinetist Muenchow, a mild rebuke for steaming off Composer Cadman's title. Julia Mood Peterkin's 1928 Pulitzer Prize Scarlet Sister Mary, a somewhat less scandalous book than the title led the Portland Junior Symphony Orchestra to believe, inspired Composer Cadman to write Dance of Scarlet Sister Mary. After he had watched a New Orleans Mardi Gras he rewrote it, keeping the theme but less than half of the actual music of the original...
...Horton Smith, Johnny Revolta, Henry Pic-ard-who play in the winter circuit because i) they are on the payroll ($5,000 to $10,000 a year) of U. S. sporting-goods manufacturers to publicize their products, and 2) they usually win from $3,000 to $6,000 in prize money during the tour. But most of all, the average pro knows that in this troupe the lowliest member may suddenly become the leading man at some performance, may win a few hun-dred dollars and get some press notices which will help him find a better job next year...
...fabulous feat of Ralph Guldahl, who, debt-laden and jobless, started out on the grapefruit circuit last winter with borrowed clubs and a wheezing jalopy, won $3,500, went on to win the U. S. Open championship last summer and wound up the year with $8,600 in prize money, a lucrative winter job at the Miami-Biltmore and a potential 1938 income of some $25,000 from endorsing golf equipment, exhibition matches, magazine articles and other pickings & perquisites that fall to a U. S. champion...
...revival of the old New England town meeting was needed to make democracy work, he began in 1935 to put on a weekly town meeting demonstration in Town Hall for a nation-wide radio audience. Soon a good part of the U. S. population was listening to his verbal prize fights and Town Hall had overflow audiences. Some 700 groups have been formed in many a U. S. town to listen to Town Hall's programs and discuss them afterwards. To foster local town meetings all over the U. S.. the League for Political Education, changing its name...
...Camera fans, polish up your lenses-and you may win a FREE TRIP TO HOLLYWOOD with ALL EXPENSES PAID WHILE THERE!" Whoever submits the best picture of Cecil B. DcMille, Hollywood producer, taken during his visit here next Tuesday, will be given this GRAND PRIZE by the Boston Sunday Advertiser, a local publication...