Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hear This ... In Columbia, S.C., longtime Navy Cook L. W. George could not conceal his shock when state fair judges awarded his chocolate cake first prize: "I thought my light fruit cake was the prettiest and the best...
...Prize Packages. There were other passengers on Suzanne's plane, whose plans and hopes for the future were inevitably and inextricably intertwined with those of the earthbound: dapper, 67-year-old Bernard Boutet de Monvel, the famed portraitist son of an even more famed illustrator father (Filles et Garcons, Jeanne d'Arc); lovely Kate Kamen and her shrewd, spectacled husband Kay, the man responsible for bringing Mickey Mouse watches, stuffed Donald Ducks and other Disney-fathered creatures into millions of U.S. nurseries. There was dynamic young (30) Ginette Neveu who in 1947, according to one critic, stepped "practically...
...would have 15 million living college graduates by 1970. If the same percentage of graduates aim for the professions as in the past (about 65%), there would have to be, to accommodate them, two or three times as many openings as exist in these prize fields now. Professor Harris, who believes as devoutly in an expanding U.S. economy as his associate, Economist Sumner Slichter (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), wonders whether it can expand that much that soon...
Although the crowd was for Pancho, Kramer won the first set, 6-4, and only play at full-power form saved Gonzales the second one, 6-3. From then on, Big Jake bossed the situation like an instructor giving lessons to a prize pupil. He poured...
...Tammany Hall could award the next Nobel Prize for literature, it might well choose Scotsman Bruce Marshall. Novelist Marshall (Father Malachy's Miracle, Vespers in Vienna) cannily laces his fiction with all the flourishes of the practicing ward heeler. He is always for the little fellow, cries out loudly against the interests, roots piously for religion, winks broadly at the moral delinquencies of the unfortunate...