Word: prize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sadja Stokowski '51 was named winner of Radcliffe's Oliver-Dabney Prize in History 1 for her essay on the Italian elections of 1948, Michael Karpovitch, professor of History, announced yesterday...
...best part of the issue is the poetry. The Garrison Prize poems, "England, 1935," by L. E. Sissman, and William Morgan's "Two Hymn Tunes," are sonorous works. Sissman's piece shows the author's ear for sound ("Battersea's four gaunt towers in their dreams fumed") and atmosphere, but Morgan's poem, especially his second "Tune" shows the greater sensitivity. John C. Fiske makes the standard reply to William Carlos Williams in his "Lines" to that poet ("Let us not call traditional forms a crime/Lest innovation be the thief of rime") but his poetic rebuttal is too contrived...
Died. James Truslow Adams,† 70, Brooklyn-born scholar and historian, winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize in History for The Founding of New England, author of more than 20 volumes on the U.S. (The Epic of America, 1931) and Britain (Building the British Empire, 1938); in Southport, Conn...
...Dana Reed prize is awarded by the editors of the 1943 Album, out of the yearbook's profits. This year's judges were Cleveland Amory '39, author of "The Proper Bostonians"; Joseph F. Barnes '27, former editor of the New York Star; and Norman Mailer '43, author of "The Naked and the Dead...
...cover of the pamphlet was the prize-winning photo of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima, along with the words...