Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speaker's panel were representatives from four phases of are: John Ciardi, Bates-Copeland Instructor in English--poetry; Boris Goldovsky, Director of the New England Opera Association--music; Denis Johnston, Director of the Theater Guild on the air--drams; and Harley Perkins, President of the Independent Artists...
...Harvard teams, Melvin L. Zurier '50, John H. Sutter '51, and Robert W. Kratz '51, defeated Princeton at Princeton. Zurier was judged the best speaker of the evening. Yale trounced the Crimson's other team, Arthur W. Purcell '50, Peter H. Clayton '50, and J. Phillip Bahn '49, at Cambridge, as Princeton squashed the Elis at Yale...
Both winners were speaking on the negative side of "Resolved, That the Communist Party should be outlawed in the United States." This is the first time the winners came from the same team; awards usually go to the best speaker on each side...
...Multitudes. Finally, surrounded by his close friends at lunch at the Savoy, Conductor Beecham got into a vivace finale. After the toastmaster had read telegrams from Jan Sibelius and Richard Strauss, he roared, "Where's the one from Mozart?" When one speaker said Sibelius had once remarked that Beecham was the "greatest living conductor," Sir Thomas chirped "Hear! Hear...
...annual dinner of the National Cartoonists' Society last week, everybody recognized President Milt (Steve Canyon) Caniff and Chief Speaker Al (Li'l Abner) Capp at the head table. But most of the 200 guests did not know the big, sandy-haired fellow in the place of honor. Murat Bernard ("Chic") Young, on his first visit to Manhattan in ten years, looked more like a small-town businessman than the $300,000-a-year creator of the world's most widely syndicated comic strip (Blondie), and the cartoonists' choice as best cartoonist of the year...