Word: winners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painter, 28-year-old Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 18, 1952 et seq.), costs up to $3,500. One print from his 75-edition Still Life with White Fruit Dish costs only $80, but sale of the whole edition would mount up to $6,000. Top Italian Painter Afro, 44, winner of Italy's first prize for painting in this year's Venice Biennale, gets $700 for a work the size of his abstract lithograph The Watchman; for one of the signed edition of 200, the price drops...
...placed strategically along the route to penalize those who violate the assigned speed or who otherwise break the law. At the end, speedometers are checked and the car which has covered a distance nearest that of the specified course at a speed closest to the assigned speed is declared winner...
...championship at Indianapolis, Canada's tiny (5 ft. 1 in., 115 lbs.) Marene Stewart, 22, plugged away at her steady, par-nudging game. Ahead, husky JoAnne Gunderson, 17, national junior champion, came all unstrung with tournament jitters. Marlene-onetime British amateur women's champion (1953), four-time winner of the Canadian open (1951, '54, '55, '56) and current U.S. intercollegiate titleholder-passed her strawberry-blonde competitor on the 35th hole, won 2 and 1, became the first Canadian woman to take home the U.S. title...
...dragged mercilessly through a bleak, attenuated version of Mildred Pierce on NBC's Lux Video Theater. The week's best drama, We Who Love Her, had Alexis Smith recover sufficiently from kleptomania to adopt her six-year-old orphaned niece on NBC's On Trial! Oscar-Winner Bette Davis couldn't resist some real-life emoting on Ed Murrow's Person-to-Person (CBS), on which she volunteered a friend's suggestion for her tombstone ("She did it the hard way"), while Husband Gary Merrill suggested that if Bette had not become an actress...
...been falsely rumored this fall that no Miss Radcliffe has ever been graduated from the College. The first four Miss'Cliffes did receive their degrees, and all four are now married. Helen Clark, the first winner, was selected class night chairman for her commencement week. According to the Radcliffe Yearbook of '52, "commencement posts are honorary, based upon election of the five members who have contributed the most top the College during their four years...