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DIED. LARRY LESUEUR, 93, Peabody Award--winning CBS correspondent who was part of the elite group, called Murrow's Boys, hired by Edward R. Murrow to cover Europe during World War II; in Washington. Vividly illuminating the horror with intimate details, like the look on a soldier's face, LeSueur covered the blitz by German bombers in London and wrote the book Twelve Months That Changed the World about his time at the Russian front. On Aug. 25, 1944, he gave Americans the first radio report on the liberation of Paris...
Taylor’s long list of accolades includes the 1990 Gilmore Young Artists Award, a scholarship for exceptionally promising American pianists aged 22 or younger. The pianist—known as “Kit” to his friends—also received a bronze medal in 1993 at the renowned Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, and won the William Kapell International Piano Competition. In 2000 he was nominated for a fellowship by the American Pianists Association...
Traditionally, the award is given to actors, but Scorsese was honored for his work as a director, producer and screenwriter...
However, despite Scorsese’s accomplishments—including the Academy Award-nominated film Goodfellas and the recently-released Gangs of New York—his hosts at the Pudding, Charles S. T. Howe ’04 and Robin O. Potts ’03 did not give up the pot easily...
...received numerous death threats, he says, but he also won an award from Committee to Protect Journalists for his “courage to speak in a silence lands...