Word: sumner
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PURITAN VILLAGE by Sumner Chilton Powell. 215 pages. Wesleyan...
...Columbia board of trustees, which picks the winners. Some of the other arts-and-letters awards, though, testified to a painstaking search for merit. The history award went to Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town, a book that was rejected by two publishers before Author Sumner Chilton Powell found a printer. Powell fielded his prize with special gratitude. He hoped, he said, that it might help him on his newest project: finding a suitable...
Other awards were as follows: General Non-fiction--Richard Hofstadter, professor of American History at Columbia, for Anti-Intellectualism in America. History--Sumner Chilton Powell for Puritan Village. Poetry--Louis Simpson for At the End of the Open Road. Merriman Smith, White House correspondent for United Press International, received the prize for national reporting for his coverage last November 22 of the assassination of President Kennedy. No prizes were given, for fiction, music, or drama this year
...confident that it will do much to contribute toward the advancement of the high objectives which it so eloquently urges upon American public opinion."--Sumner Welles, former Under Secretary of State...
Conceived by Stanford's imaginative Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Norman Kretchmer and Dr. Sumner Yaffe, the new unit on the third floor of the Stanford Medical Center (whose ornate design by Architect Edward Stone leads townsfolk to call it the "Taj Mahal") is intended to win that kind of basic knowledge. Since Dr. Kretchmer and his colleagues want data that can be applied to all premature babies, they are studying an average run of preemies. Most are normal except for their size, though last week one had to be fed by a tube leading directly into its stomach through...