Word: prize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York press gave the killing a good play and then went on to other news. But not the New York Sun. It set a man to digging out the story behind the story. Last week stocky, hard-digging Reporter Malcolm Malone ("Mike") Johnson got a well-earned Pulitzer Prize* for his carefully documented series on "Crime on the Water Front...
...this $500 Pulitzer Prize award, Reporter Johnson murmured modestly that "the woods are full of reporters who could do as good a job." Then he took time out for an office cocktail party in his honor, and went back to digging...
...Henry Moore is Britain's best and most controversial sculptor. Moore's half-abstract figures-pinheaded people carved into queer, attenuated shapes, rubbed smooth and then pierced with holes-have won critical acclaim in Manhattan (TIME, Dec. 30, 1946). A year ago they earned him first prize at an international exhibition in Venice. Last week, Yorkshire-born Henry Moore let the homefolks in on what he had been doing by holding a retrospective show in the red brick, grey-roofed town of Wakefield. Six thousand Yorkshiremen turned up to see what all the fuss was about. The proof...
...Torment" was shown in every city in Europe and was given the Grand Prize at Cannes in 1946. It was shown a few months later in New York to critical approval. However, it failed to meet with the approval of the Legion of Decency, an organization which "rates" every film for Roman Catholic consumption. The American distributors were unwilling to offer the film for the national market until it had been cleared by the Legion, being fearful of poor business. By making three cuts; the film has now been cleared. Through its unofficial pressure, the Roman Catholic group has again...
Richard A. S. Henry '52 has been awarded the Jeremy Belknap Prize for 1948-49, Sargent Kennedy, secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, announced yesterday. The prize of $50 is for a composition in French...