Word: prize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...owns 153 acres in Durham, N.Y.), and an amateur woodworker. When World War II broke out, he insisted that the Times send him abroad as a correspondent, spent two years in China, followed that up with a ten-month reportorial stint in Moscow that won him a Pulitzer Prize...
...little (507 students), 120-year-old Erskine College (which is most of Due West, S.C.) gave an honorary membership to onetime Erskine Man Erskine (God's Little Acre) Caldwell, who is named after Erskine's founder, Ebenezer Erskine. The honor is even rarer than a Nobel Prize in literature. Only other honorary Euphemian: Confederate General Robert E. Lee, who was elected to the society in 1868, failed because of ill health to come by and get his diploma. But nobody around Due West can now remember why Lee was so saluted...
Showing up in Stockholm to get his Nobel Prize for literature (value: $42,601.96), left-leaning Italian Poet Salvatore Quasimodo, 58, sounded more as if he came to be tried rather than honored. He praised the Swedish Academy for its "nonconformist" decision to give him the prize, snarled at those in the West who had said that he did not deserve it. Quasimodo pooh-poohed the Soviet oppression of Hungary, lashed out at Western publications that had hinted that he was a Red. Said the new Nobelman: "It is said that I am proud, conceited, and difficult to understand...
...White has logged the ECG of a small (only 1¼ ton) Beluga whale in Alaska (TIME, Aug. 25, 1952), but has been thwarted in efforts to get his electrodes into the bigger grey whale off California. Last week he was within a heartbeat of an equally desirable prize, and missed by a fluke...
...prize for the quickest match of the evening, however, went to Peter Smith, who managed to complete his first game while losing only a single. On the whole, the entire team played quickly; and several spectators were still arriving as the last Crimson player left the courts...