Word: w
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...living out his days in a Washington, D.C. insane asylum (if he ever recovers, he will be tried for treason), won the Bollingen Prize of $1,000 for The Pisan Cantos (TIME, Oct. 25), "the highest achievement of American poetry" in 1948. The election committee, which includes Conrad Alken, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell and Katherine Anne Porter, "aware that objections may be made," explained their choice: "To permit other considerations than that of poetic achievement to sway the decision, would destroy the significance of the award, and would, in principle, deny the validity of that objective...
...W. W. Rogers, city health officer, went into action. The slaughter of nylons, he decided, was probably caused by acid-laden soot from low-grade fuel...
Ever since Textron Inc. decided to close its Nashua, N.H. plants and wipe out 3,500 jobs (TIME, Sept. 27), New Hampshire's excitable Republican Senator Charles W. Tobey had been gunning for Textron's President Royal Little...
...Crimson took second here when the affirmative team, Richard D. Rohr '50 and Robert W. Kratz '51, won both of its preliminary debates and the negative team, Vas I. Steward '51 and Richard W. Hulbert '51, won one and lost...
...step towards the goal will be made today when Robert L. Fischelis '49, President of the Student Council, turns over the $1412 collected from the student body at fall registration. John W. Teele '27, Director of the Student Placement Burean and Chairman of the Harvard Red Cross Fund, who receives the check counts on the faculty and University employees for the balance of the quote...