Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Take It or Leave It. In Denver, Contest Addict Allene Melrose wondered what to do with the prize allowing her a 10% discount at a local mortuary...
...other Communist bigwigs sat through ceremonies on the stage of the Bolshoi theater, in front of a color guard that looked strangely like a male chorus line (see cut). In Berlin, meanwhile, the anniversary was marked by an uncommon display of the new Communist sweetness & light-and a prize propaganda boner...
...right in two. The anti-Ashby faction found powerful leaders on the faculty. Among them were Economist Tucker P. Smith, head of the Olivet Teachers' Union and the 1948 Socialist candidate for Vice President, and Pacifist Carleton Mabee, of the history department, winner in 1944 of the Pulitzer Prize for biography (The American Leonardo). Student intellectuals lined up behind Smith as a Student Action Committee. "The S.A.C.'s," jeered Ashbyite Clark Balch, a 30-year-old senior and football tackle, "are the kind of people who like art and music and stay up till 4 a.m. reading...
Karl Terzaghi, professor of the Practice of Civil Engineering, will receive the Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize for his work on a paper on shipways at the three day convention of the American Society of Civil Engineers starting tomorrow in New York...
...world. The names of Hugo Kortschak, Willem Willeke, Jacques Gordon, Rudolf Kolisch, William Kroll, Albert Spalding, Myra Hess, and hosts of others appear on these programs. In these years she organized the Berkshire Quartet, the Coolidge Quartet, and the Elshuco Trio. She inaugurated in 1921 the Coolidge Prize for chamber music compositions and began commissioning works by contemporary composers. The list of those she has helped in this way, who have dedicated their works to her, contains virtually every name in modern music. Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Malipiere, Ravel, Copland, Milhand, Sowerby, Piston, Bartok, Martinu, Hindemith, Harris, Hanson, Prokoileff, and Britten...