Word: prize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...illustrated limerick contest. First prize: twelve bottles of "1929 Heidelbach-Icpleheimer"; second, $2.50; third, a "partnership in Speyer...
Married. Sir Frederick Grant Banting, 47, University of Toronto professor, who won the Nobel Prize (1923) as co-discoverer of insulin; and Henrietta Ball, 27, laboratory technician; his second, her first; in Toronto...
John Herrmann was a traveling salesman himself at 15, studied law, took up journalism before he married Josephine Herbst (Nothing Is Sacred, Money for Love), published a book, What Happens, in Paris in 1926. In 1932 he shared with Thomas Wolfe a $5,000 prize in a Scribner's short-novel contest. Herrmann's work, Big Little Trip, was about a jewelry salesman who oversold his customers. The Salesman suggests that its author is oversold on salesmen...
...puzzled Town Hall clubsters, meeting to discuss "The Business Man and the Arts," Chairman Wendell Willkie, president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., with great unction read a silly telegram from a serious man: ". . . Please extend to all of the [Pulitzer Prize] winners my hearty congratulations . . . Franklin D. Roosevelt." Explanation: The club originally planned to honor the Pulitzer winners, requested a Presidential message, changed its mind without notifying the White House...
Herbert Agar, Pulitzer Prize winner in history and associate, editor of the Louisville, Kentucky Courier-Journal, will be Phi Beta Kappa orator at the annual exercises of the Harvard chapter, in Sanders Theatre, June 23, during commencement week. Mr. Agar won the Pulitzer Prize in 1933 with his book "The People's Choice...