Word: prize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relaxed by tossing a football around on the airport apron at 3 a.m. Last week-even though he was vacationing in Key Biscayne, just a few miles from the Orange Bowl-Nixon picked up stakes for a trip back to California and the Rose Bowl. He calls it "the prize game of all bowl games...
Married. Sandy Koufax, 33, former Los Angeles Dodger pitching ace and prize Hollywood bachelor, who has become one of the most popular television sportscasters on the West Coast; and Anne Widmark, 23, Actor Richard's beautiful brunette daughter, who met Sandy six months ago in Malibu when he strolled by and offered to help paint her family's beach house; both for the first time; in a civil ceremony at the Widmark home in West Los Angeles...
...after weeks of hearings, Fuller has won a victory of sorts. The Kentucky Racing Commission has declared Dancer's Image the official record-book winner of the 1968 Derby. But the commission for some unexplained reason still refuses to award Dancer's Image the $122,600 first-prize purse; that goes to Forward Pass, the second-place finisher. So on with the battle, says Fuller, planning yet another appeal. "I'm going to do all I can for my horse, whom I view as a friend...
Bertolt Brecht had a touching Teutonic faith in the power of the blow to instruct. Almost all his dramas are displays of belligerent didacticism. The stage was his prize ring. The audience was his sparring partner. There he was-"poor B.B.," as he always liked to think of himself-lashing out with a bruising ideological left to the midriff, jolting the playgoer with some brisk truism...
...Fidelman, Bernard Malamud writes of an impoverished painter who outwits a gang of forgers who force him to turn out a new Titian. From Paris comes The Fruits of Winter, the new Prix Goncourt winner that was the occasion for enough scheming and plotting on the part of the prize jury (TIME, Nov. 29) to provide material for a brilliant satire. The winning author is Bernard Clavel, and his story, modeled on his parents' life, is about the bitter years of the Nazi occupation...