Word: prize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Champion. Ring Lardner's prize middleweight heel, played with a wallop by Kirk Douglas (TIME, April...
...birdshot. In The Company She Keeps (TIME, June 1, 1942), she made a novel of sorts out of a series of lively, only-too-lifelike portraits of Manhattan intellectuals. Her new book, The Oasis, appears in the U.S. with advance laurels: it has already won the 1949 short-novel prize of Britain's own uncompromisingly cerebral monthly, Horizon...
...lira (about $35) for his exceptional fruit stand, which boasted 15 varieties of fruit and a trimming of laurel and myrtle leaves. Grazie Ceci, who is 90 years old and who shares three rooms in Bologna alley with 22 relatives and acquaintances, won a 1,000 lira prize as the oldest grandmother, announced she would spend a good part of it on wine...
...works of Gerard Sekoto, the only Negro artist included. Sekoto was born 35 years ago at a little hill station in the Transvaal where his father was the local mission teacher. As a child he had sketched on the sly, gotten occasional encouragement from schoolmasters, won his first prize in a school competition-a Bible and five shillings. In 1939 he set out for Johannesburg to seek his fortune as an artist. In a few years he had taught himself to paint vivid, straight-speaking pictures of fellow natives crowded in their tumbledown sub urban "locations" or moving through...
Just Desserts. In Delaware, Ohio, Douglas Ditrick ate 13 ears in a corn-eating contest and won first prize: 15 ears of corn...