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| Announcing the Winners of the . 1 New Republic Short Story Contest r War Veterans Now Attending College Aiming at the discovery of fresh, authentic voices among World War II veterans, the editors of the New Republic went to the collegé campuses of America. War vet- erans there,’ students under the GI Bill of Rights, submitted over 2,000 manuscripts to the New Republic Short Story Contest. Judges: Marshall Best, Editor of Viking Press; Frank Taylor, recently Editor of Reynal © Hitchcock; Otis Wiese, Editor of McCall’s. “ First Prize ($500 4ward): Ashur Baizer, Columbia University, N.Y. Second Prize ($250 Award): Jesse McCracken, Guilford College, North Carolina. Third—Seventh Prizes ($50 “Avoaris): Donald McInnis, Stanford University, California; Richard Seaver, University of North Caro- lina; Elvin Albaum, Brooklyn College, New York; Emmett Robin- son, University of Texas; Jerry Bick, Columbia University, N. Y. Honorable Mention Awards (One-Year Subscriptions to the New Republic) : Bernard Aurentz, Hershey Junior College, Pennsylvania; Milton Bass, Amherst Col- lege, Massachusetts; John Birmingham, Hartford, Connecticut; Frederick Brainin, National School for Speech Disorders, New York; Martin Bressler, City College of New York; Bradley Burch, New York University; Charles Caldwell, University of ‘Alabama; Art Casey (2), Los Angeles, California; S. R. Curran, Cornell University; New York; Robert L. Fraissinet, Yale University, Connecticut; Alexander Frazer, Northwestern University, Illinois; William Garvin, Pennsylvania State College; William A. Gold, University of Virginia; Herb Gould (2), Columbia University, New York; Jay Haley (3), Los Angeles, California; Daniel Kushner, New School for Social Research, New York; Ray Lapica, New York City; Jerome Lipman, Uni- versity of Pennsylvania; Norman Michie, Ripon, Wisconsin; Warren Miller, Univer- sity of Iowa; John Orr, University of Alabama; Leo E. Persselin, University of Illinois; Shane Riorden, Harvard University, Massachusetts; Joseph H. Satin, Co- lumbia University, New York; Paul Selvin, University of Connecticut; Jack C. Werner, Columbia University, New York. Watch forthcoming issues of the New Republic for publication of winning stories