Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sensational flop. The Times-Leader did not want it; neither did any New York syndicate. On & off for nine years, while he worked for three Wilkes-Barre newspapers, Fisher tried without success to sell Dumbelletski, later renamed Palooka (a common prize ring term for a third rater). At last McNaught Syndicate offered Fisher a job, not as a cartoonist, but as a salesman. Hustling Ham sold McEvoy & Striebel's Dixie Dugan strip to 41 newspapers and promised that on his next trip he would bring the "most terrific cartoon of all time." With that buildup, he sold Palooka...
...Acosta had enough, he rushed the cotton into town to be ginned, piled the 512-lb. bale aboard a pick-up truck and raced 350 miles to the Houston Cotton Exchange in 6½ hours. For bringing in the first bale of the season, Joe got $1,325 in prize money, and another $1,203, a record, when his bale was auctioned off at the exchange...
Gerard J. Mangone 2G of Middletown, Conn., has won a Sumner Prize for an essay entitled "The Idea and Practice of World Government...
Inis L. Claude, Jr. 2G of Conway, Arkansas, has won a Chase Prize for an essay entitled "The International Treatment of the Problem of National Minorities...
Unawarded this year were the Francis Boott Prize, the Circolo Italiano Prize, the John A. Walz, Jr. Prize, the Carl Schurz Prize, and the Susan Anthony Potter Prize in Spanish Literature...