Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first is a collection of short stories which won the ?500 Somerset Maugham Award in England. Under the terms laid down by Donor Maugham, the British government permits the winner to spend his prize money in foreign travel - and that privilege, in currency-tight England, is a prize in itself. Novelist Evelyn Waugh acidly predicted that "elderly" writers would compete even if it meant "forging of birth certificates, dyeing of whiskers and lifting of faces. To what parodies of experimental styles will we not push our experienced pens...
...meter dive: Won by Heston (Yale); second, Flynn (Rutgers); third, Fergeson (Yale); fourth, Drohan (Harvard); fifth, Sevella (Springfield); sixth, Campbell (Springfield). Winner's points...
Only in the quartermile freestyle does there seem any hope of home triumphs. Jerry Gorman, winner of last year's title, and Ted Norris, undefeated until he swam an off-form race last week, carry the sole hopes here. If Norris can swim a really good race, he may well...
...Drohan, ranking diver who lost only once this year in regular competition, has an outside chance to knock off Sper, a consistent winner ever since his schoolboy days...
...Boston teams is the winner of the United Settlement Houses of Greater Boston basketball tourney, while the other is an all-star team, coached by Varsity basketball player Gunther Rosinus...