Word: winners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joel A. Sachs '61 of Matthews Hall and New Haven, Conn., has been chosen winner of the concerto contest held Tuesday night by the Pierian Sodality of 1808 in Paine Music Hall...
...winner of a whole flock of minor awards and a leading Oscar candidate, The Bridge on the River Kwai has acquired an undeserved reputation for "significance." The only way it could "mean" anything very important would be as a comment on various attitudes toward war or toward fine points of law and principle. But since the spokesman for one attitude is unspeakably stupid if not downright insane, the "issue" which the film discusses is no issue at all. We are expected to feel a grudging admiration for this Colonel Nicholson as he suffers, and makes his men suffer...
Always the Memory. Painter Afro, 45, now showing 19 of his latest works at Manhattan's Viviano Gallery, is the best of Italy's new postwar generation. Winner of the Grand Prize for Italian painting at Venice's 1956 Biennale, he is about to spend six months at California's Mills College, where his main assignment will be a 10-ft.-by-20-ft. mural for Paris' new UNESCO headquarters...
...advertising suffered from the failures of Milton Berle, Joe E. Brown, Jackie Gleason. Kudner topped off its poor TV performance last August, when a closing Buick commercial was injected into the Floyd Patterson-Hurricane Jackson bout just as the referee stopped the fight and before Patterson could be declared winner. After complaints from hundreds of watchers, Ragsdale, himself a boxing fan, apologized for "the inept handling and bad timing of the commercial...
...varsity placed second among the Ivy entrants, behind Cornell, which came in a strong second in the tournament, only two points behind winner Pitt. Cornell, last year's Ivy titlists, entered only four men in the tourney, but all four advanced to the finals, and three, Carmen Molino at 130, Dick Vincent at 157, and Steve Friedman at 177, won their divisions...