Word: prize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were 156 paintings in Pepsi-Cola's annual roundup of U.S. art which opened in Manhattan this week, and every single painting won a prize. It seemed like an ideal way to spend money (more than $41,000) without hurting anyone's feelings very much...
Another such painting, which might strike laymen as being neither better nor worse than the rest, won this year's top prize. Insisted Director McKinney: "The finest picture in the whole show." It was a sodden, ragged and barren landscape under a strawberry-tinted sky, done by a soft-spoken 32-year-old Virginian named Mitchell Jamieson. To Painter Jamieson, in Paris last week on a Guggenheim Fellowship to study European masters, the news hit the spot. "I planned on going to an art exhibition with my wife this afternoon," he said when he was asked about...
Reporters inspected him as if he were a prize bull at a cattle show. He answered their questions. No, he'd never been east of the Rockies before ... He didn't think Florida was as pretty as he'd heard it was . . . He didn't know whether he could hit big league pitching, but he was glad...
...prize was established in 1942 by Robert Sibley of the University of California, and bears his name. It will remain in the possession of the Bulletin until the next annual meeting of the Alumni Council, William Bentinck-Smith '37, editor of the publication, said last night...
...roads it was hard to tell that there had been fighting. Farmers tilled fields, animals grazed, peasants slept under trees. Only at rare intervals did we see a few dead bodies. Here & there was an overturned Hyderabad truck. At the village of Homnabad, the Indian army showed off its prize prisoner: he was a middle-aged clerk who had been secretary of the local Razakar organization-the band of Moslem diehards and guerrillas led by fanatic little Kasim Razvi (TIME, Aug. 30). A meek character in a grey Persian lamb fez and long coat, he looked just as his leader...