Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Momo's first taping he reveals that Madame Lola is really a former male fighter who has had hormone injections and now "peddles her ass." It is a revelation that comes as a complete surprise which means, even more, that whether she is a prostitute or prize-fighter is irrelevant in judging her as a human. She is good and kind. That is all that matters. This is Madame Rosa's central theme...
This year's co-captains, Bobby Mellen and Hank Leopold, split a pair of other awards presented Saturday. Leopold copped the trophy for the player who contributed the most to Harvard lacrosse, while Mellen won the "best hustle" prize...
...Butler was so distressed by what he considered offensive and lascivious in Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls that he refused to submit the award recommendation to the trustees. The trustees refused to approve W. A. Swanberg's Citizen Hearst, so Swanberg got a later consolation prize for an inferior biography of Henry R. Luce...
...power now rests in the ill-named Advisory Board. Its twelve journalist members are top honchos on Establishment papers (New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal,-plus Howard H. Hays Jr., editor of the Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise). Their reversals of jury recommendations last month gave one unexpected prize to the Washington Post (a well-deserved one to Editorial Writer Meg Greenfield), and two to the Times, including the most controversial of all, to Columnist William Safire, the former Nixon speechwriter whose persistence, the judges concluded, had helped pin Bert Lance's coonskin to the wall...
This year Steve won $1.8 million before taking the $186,900 Derby prize money...