Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit's music lover Henry Reichhold, who runs the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Reichhold's publicity men snagged newspaper space by calling Prizewinner Robertson a cowboy-composer. Actually, though Robertson did herd sheep in Utah as a boy, he is a music professor at Brigham Young University, and winner of the New York Music Critics' Circle award in 1944 for a string quartet. He had not even entered Reichhold's contest: he sent the score, signed "Nostrebor" (his name spelled backwards) to his New York publisher, who entered it without Robertson's knowledge...
...hoped that TIME, the champion of journalistic accuracy, will correct its failure to mention the name of the winner in the coming Louisiana campaign for governor...
...broad hints (TIME, Dec. 8), the mystery of Miss Hush was no longer very mysterious. For Dancer Graham it had been a big publicity binge. For the March of Dimes it had been worth at least $350,000. For Listener Subbie it was more of the same: winner of 100 other radio contests in the past eleven years, she had just returned from a "prize" trip to California...
There are 2,900 fast-starting, nimble "quarter horses" and 82 race horses in the ranch's stable. The ranch's Assault has won $623,370 to date, third biggest winner in racing history...
Both scholars and wide-eyed popularizers dug around in the roots of the nation's past, but when they came to write about it, rarely got off the ground. Most ambitious of the professional jobs was Allan Kevins' Ordeal of the Union, winner of the $10,000 Scribner Prize in American History, which devoted 1,183 detail-packed pages to the brief but politically stormy period 1848-56. Five more volumes are to come. Bernard De Voto's Across the Wide Missouri covered another brief period, 1833-38, dealt lovingly, almost lyrically, with the American fur trade...