Word: prize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nadia Boulanger (TIME, Feb. 28, 1938). For 30 years in her Paris studio Pedagogue Boulanger has been quietly hatching out one adept music-writer after another. Nearly every younger modernist who has ever been near Paris has taken a few lessons from her. Last week Teacher Boulanger took her prize pupil to Manhattan, there led the Philharmonic-Symphony in accompaniment while he played his best-known composition. The pupil: a slight, dark-haired, 26-year-old Frenchman named Jean Frangaix. The composition: his tricky, chattering, exuberant Piano Concerto, recorded four months ago by Victor (TIME, Nov. 7). Manhattanites were...
...first they came out beautifully-Max Reinhardt took to him, and when he was 27 one of his plays won the Kleist Prize (German counterpart of the Pulitzer Prize for drama)-but later his chestnuts be came .ashes, too. Not that he was perse cuted; he was 100% "Aryan." But he feared the tree, for above its gutted trunk it was sprouting heavy Nazi foliage...
Edgar Ansel Mowrer is former head of the Foreign Press Association in Berlin, winner of a 1933 Pulitzer Prize for his despatches on the rise of Hitler, and author of Germany Puts the Clock Back-the book that got him kicked out of Germany. Last year he spent several months in Central and North China, interviewed foreigners, Chinese, the "Amazing Soong Family," watched a Japanese bombing massacre with U. S.-made planes, saw the guerrillas in action behind the Japanese lines...
...tryouts take on a special significance with the announcement of the Debating Council that the Lee Wade speaking prize money will be added to the money of the Coolidge award so that two prizes of one hundred and of fifty dollars each will be given to the two best men in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton debates...
That made Institutions the leader of the Industry and Finance section. And that made President Compton of M. I. T., chairman of Institutions, the recipient of the Campaign's first prize, a thirty inch high Orphan Annie doll...