Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little Foxes might have yielded something inordinately operatic. But though his big scenes are sometimes florid enough, Composer Blitzstein's version of the Alabama Hubbards is fundamentally comic. Regina much less suggests a social critic excoriating an emerging class of plunderers than a first-rate showman exhibiting a prize assortment of hellions. Blitzstein's Hubbards cavort the whole time they conspire, and the general effect is of exuberance rather than tension...
Balding Sam Snead, 37, barely missed winning golf's biggest prize, the U.S. Open. But he won enough assorted other tournaments this year to be far & away the game's leading money winner, with $30,893. Last week, with the poise of a magician about to perform his tricks, Sam stepped to the first tee of the Pinehurst (N.C.) Country Club for one of the last big tournaments of golf's fiscal year: the North and South Open...
...Circolo Italiano Prize of $25 for the best essay of from about 1500 to 4500 wards on a subject "in the general field of Italian culture...
...Susan Anthony Potter Prize for $75 for the best essay on "Spanish literature of the Golden...
...finally the David A. Wells Prize in Economics of $500 for the "best thesis embodying the results of original investigation...