Word: womens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...look at the cover and I tore up my renewal. I consider it an insult to the many fine men & women who have appeared on your covers in the past...
France's Prix Femina is a literary award (5,000 francs) that was created in 1904 to lend to novels by and about women a prestige formerly denied them: France's top literary honor, the august Prix Goncourt, is reserved for male authors only. Last week, the 17 elderly French women writers who award the Prix Femina found their task too grisly, seemed about ready to leave prize-giving to the menfolk. "Life in today's novel," said one of the judges in an interview, "is twisted to eroticism. For instance...
...colleagues agreed. "A committee of women," said one, "cannot crown a book dealing with erotic subjects...
...White Russians faced the bare pine tribunal in the People's Court at Sarajevo to hear judgment passed on them on charges of spying for their Russian homeland, which they had not seen in three decades (TIME, Dec. 12). The courtroom was packed. Men & women stood in the aisles of the courtroom, others crowded around the loudspeakers in the corridors outside. Groups of school children had been herded in to be educated by the proceedings. In a flat monotone, wavy-haired Judge Stevo Yokanovic slowly read out the sentences...
...Smith women will hear five hours of Harvard radio programs tomorrow night when 24 members of WHRB descend on WCSR, the Smith College Radio Station, to broadest their own programs...