Word: prize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Guilt Complex. In Madisonville, Tex., a local cattlemen's association launched a national "corrective campaign," hopefully offered a prize to the child of an out-of-state veteran (trained in Texas) who wrote the best letter on "Why My Daddy Is Wrong About Texas...
Russian Novelist llya Ehrenburg, who a few years ago won a Stalin Prize (currently worth $18,862), won it all over again with The Storm, a novel about Russia's wartime heroism and the Allies' rapaciousness. Dramatist Konstantin Simonov, whose The Russian Question (about corrupt U.S. journalism) won him a Stalin Prize last year, got none this time-but prizes went to the men who made a movie of his play...
Carroll Binder, chief editorial writer of the Minneapolis Tribune, writing in the American Mercury, declared that "possession of a Pulitzer Prize does not guarantee that the holder is among the best [newspapermen]. Nor is the lack of a Pulitzer Prize evidence that a veteran newspaperman is not among the most capable or fearless." Binder put the blame for bad choices on the 13-man Pulitzer advisory board, mostly publishing executives of big newspapers. (The board meets annually at the April convention of the American Newspaper Publishers Association...
Says Binder: "The U.P. is so convinced that it cannot get a prize while [A.P. Boss Kent] Cooper is a member of the advisory board that it refuses to submit [any more stories...
...runaway asteroid was a fine prize for astronomers, who rarely get a leisurely chance to study such objects passing so close to the earth. Three other asteroids (the latest ten years ago) are known to have wandered inside the earth's orbit, but they were visible only briefly and have since been lost in space. Wirtanen's asteroid will probably stay around long enough for its orbit to be calculated accurately. Astronomers can keep track of it and perhaps find where it goes when it turns away from...