Word: prize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Toronto officials tried to get all this relief money back from the four mothers, fecund winners of Toronto's famed "Stork Derby" which paid out $425,000 (TIME, June 13). The day they got their prize money the mothers spontaneously chorused: "We will repay every cent of the relief we received...
Archibald MacLeish, 1932 winner of the Politzer poetry prize, has recently been appointed Curator of the Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism here for the coming academic year. MacLeish will supervise the creation in Widener of a collection of general literature on modern journalism...
...still getting a kick out of all this. Pegler has made a prize ass of himself...
...Should Be Chosen To Be Made Over." Long of nose, mousy of hair, skinny of figure, Miss Foutz won with a frank letter showing no self-pity, frank pictures indicating need of makeover (see cut). Last week she went to Manhattan to receive her prize: a four-to-six-week treatment with a plastic surgeon and Bonwit Teller's beauty salon to make the least of her nose, the most of her hair, chin, body. Miss Foutz: "My greatgrandfather went west in 1847 to change the map. I've come east in 1938 to change...
Death on the Installment Plan fills in the nightmare to his 20th year. It provoked less excitement in Paris literary circles than either his Journey, which started riots when it lost the 1932 Goncourt Prize, or his anti-Semitic "exercise," Trifles for a Massacre (TIME, May 30), which shocked even Nazis. Death on the Installment Plan was merely expurgated and called the work of a communist, an anarchist and a maniac. As the U. S. edition follows the French, most readers' imaginations are probably not strong enough to figure out what French publishers expurgated. English publishers threw out plenty...