Word: prize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months preparing to "pass." To stain his skin, he tried walnut juice, iodine, Argyrol, even an infusion of mahogany bark. When nothing worked, he shaved his pate and settled for three weeks in the Florida sun. Disguises were an old dodge to Reporter Sprigle, who won a Pulitzer Prize (1937) for uncovering Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black's past as a Ku Klux Klan member. Three years ago, elaborately roughed up as a black marketeer, he had exposed a meat-rationing scandal in Pittsburgh (TIME, April...
...heavy on the hoof but steady on the fairway. In the final round, Porky overtook Hogan and at one point was two strokes ahead; then he dropped back. On the last hole, Hogan needed to sink a 20-ft. putt to salt down the $2,500 first prize. But his putt curled away from...
Having taken in $25,297.50 in prize money in seven months of tournament play, Hogan slipped away for a long rest and a series of golf shorts in Hollywood, before Reno's September Invitational. The other pros, who needed the money, headed for Chicago's brassy Tarn O'Shanter tournaments, which pay out the biggest prize money ($55,300) in golf. Oliver was bound there "to get some more cookies for my two girls and my boy . . . and to get away from Hogan...
Quiz programs will be outlawed if a prize is awarded to any person "whose selection is dependent in any manner upon lot or chance," and if, as a condition of winning, the contestant 1) must furnish "any money or thing of value," or have in his possession a sponsor's product; 2) must be listening to or seeing over television the show in question; 3) must answer correctly a question to which either the answer or a clue (including the question itself) has been given on a previous broadcast, or 4) must write a letter or answer the telephone...
...theory that "the artists of tomorrow are the art students of today," Gallery Director Bartlett Hayes Jr. had gathered 113 prize student pictures from 25 of the country's best art schools. Knowing the assembly-line dreariness of most U.S. art education (which grinds out armies of would-be painters each year), Hayes himself had been surprised by the result-a show that was technically expert, sparkling with real talent and livelier than most on Manhattan's art-merchandising 57th Street...