Lerner and Loewe's run of success continued with their next project, a film adaptation of stories from Colette, the Academy Award winning film musical Gigi, starring Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan and Maurice Chevalier.

The criteria for winning this award would be for authors who focus their stories on the exploration of science fiction and gender.

The award is named for Alice B. Sheldon, who wrote under the pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr. By choosing a masculine nom de plume, having her stories accepted under that name and winning awards with them, Sheldon helped demonstrate that the division between male and female science fiction writing was illusory.

His early fortunes and exploits are favorite subjects of Ottoman writers, especially in love stories of his wooing and winning the fair Mal Hatun.

Returning the assigned illustration quickly does not directly correlate to winning the Gold Award, but those artists who do so are allowed the opportunity to illustrate additional stories.

Her distinctive colours of blue with buff stripes were carried by horses such as Special Cargo, the winner of the 1984 Whitbread Gold Cup, and Devon Loch, which spectacularly halted just short of the winning post at the 1956 Grand National and whose jockey Dick Francis later had a successful career as the writer of racing-themed detective stories.

One detail of Bertie's school life which comes into several stories is his winning of the prize for Scripture Knowledge while at Malvern House.

Pulitzer-prize winning stories from 1995 are available free on the Pulitzer web site.

After winning his first Grammy Award for Escenas in 1986, he recorded the album Agua de Luna based on the short stories of famed writer Gabriel García Márquez in 1987.

Gerrold contributed two stories for the Emmy Award winning Star Trek: The Animated Series which ran from 1973 to 1974: " More Tribbles, More Troubles " and " Bem ".

* 2008: ( Two winning newspapers ) Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker of The New York Times, " for their stories on toxic ingredients in medicine and other everyday products imported from China, leading to crackdowns by American and Chinese officials.

Sacco next travelled to Sarajevo and Goražde near the end of the Bosnian War, and produced a series of reports in the same style as Palestine: the comics Safe Area Goražde, The Fixer, and the stories collected in War's End ; the financing for which was aided by his winning of the Guggenheim Fellowship in April 2001.

Multiple stories exist to explain the origin of Wilson's nickname: By one account, a New York newspaper held a nicknaming contest ; the winning entry was " Hack " because he reminded many fans of another stocky athlete, the popular wrestler Georg Hackenschmidt.

While in Kuwait, he spent much time reading Russian literature and socialist theory, refining many of the short stories he wrote, winning a Kuwaiti prize.

Further award winning stories featuring gay characters, such as " Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones ", were to follow, all collected in Delany's short story retrospective Aye, and Gomorrah, and other stories.

Notable Loyola alumni include: Mark Bowden, 1999 National Book Award finalist for Black Hawk Down ; Tom Clancy, best selling author of the Jack Ryan series of novels ; Michael D. Griffin, former Administrator ( highest-ranked official ) of NASA ; Harry Markopolos, financial investigator who sounded the alarm about the Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme ; Jim McKay, former twelve time Emmy-Award winning host of ABC's Wide World of Sports ; and Herbert O ' Conor, 51st Governor of Maryland, Nick Brown, a journalist covering bankruptcy for Thomson Reuters who has broken several major stories including ones on TerreStar Corporation, as well as other prominent government, religious, literary and business leaders.

Among the group of insane characters in Caragiale's work, Călinescu counted those of sketches and stories like 1 Aprilie (" 1st of April "), where an April Fool ends with a murder, and Două loturi, where the clerk Lefter Popescu goes through the tribulations of having lost his winning ticket.

He began his literary career with the prize winning play " Anbin Parisu ", followed by many short stories, novellas and novels.

Those surviving include The Sons of Ingmar ( 1919 ), Karin, Daughter of Ingmar ( 1920 ) and The Phantom Carriage ( 1921 ), all based on stories by the Nobel-prize winning novelist Selma Lagerlöf.

He has also published, as editor, a further volume of Australian speculative fiction Dreaming Again, anthologies of Nebula Award winning stories, and many other anthologies, both singularly and in collaboration with others.

Strange Pilgrims ( original Spanish-language title: Doce cuentos peregrinos ) is a collection of twelve loosely-related short stories by the Nobel Prize winning Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez.

The Strange New Worlds competition, open to entries from the public, runs annually, and results in the publication of an anthology featuring the winning short stories.

Along with action sequences, stories focused on intelligent plotting and character development, winning the series praise for its subtle teaching of such values as individuality, freedom, and the volatility of humanity.

There are ghostly scenes in which the little boy on his rocking horse rocks madly toward the climax that will magically give him the name of the winning horse.

You may do well to take notice, that besides the title to land between the English and the Indians there, there are twelve of the English that have subscribed their names to horrible and detestable blasphemies, who are rather to be judged as blasphemous than they should delude us by winning time under pretence of arbitration ''.

Here then is our problem: aircraft are vital to winning a war today because they can perform those missions which a missile is totally incapable of performing ; ;

Such sweeping distractions are hardly conducive to `` Oscar '' winning performances.

Everywhere there are little touches of humor, and the leader of the on-stage band of musicians is an ebullient comedian who plays all sorts of odd instruments with winning warmth.

Keys has no such objections to Metrecal, Quaker Oats's Quota and other 900-calorie milk formulas that are currently winning favor from dieters.

Elections for the National assembly are to take place every five years, and the President is automatically the leader of the winning party or coalition.

Under instructions from the emperor, he undertook an invasion of southern Scotland, winning some significant victories, and constructing the Antonine Wall from the Firth of Forth to the Firth of Clyde, although it was soon abandoned for reasons that are still not quite clear.

* 1989 – General elections are held in Nicaragua with the Sandinista National Liberation Front winning a majority.

In 1972, they completed the European treble by winning the Dutch Eredivisie, KNVB Cup, and the European Cup ; to date, they are the only team to keep the European Cup and accomplish the European treble.

Early board games represented a battle between two armies, and most current board games are still based on defeating opposing players in terms of counters, winning position or accrual of points ( often expressed as in-game currency ).

Walter Johnson, Carl Hubbell, and Hal Newhouser are the only pitchers who have won multiple times, Newhouser winning consecutively in 1944 and 1945.

Wins are paid out at 1: 1, or equal to the wager, except for winning blackjacks, which are traditionally paid at 3: 2 ( meaning the player receives three dollars for every two bet ), or one and a half times the wager.

In the more recent series of the franchise, special instances have occurred whereby contestants are allowed to view televised events which are usually as a reward for winning a task.

Though virtually any game in which there are winning and losing outcomes can be wagered on, these games are specifically designed to make the betting process a strategic part of the game.

The player's disadvantage is a result of the casino not paying winning wagers according to the game's " true odds ", which are the payouts that would be expected considering the odds of a wager either winning or losing.

There are no attendants, and so the progress of the game, fairness of the throws, and the way that the pay-outs are made for winning bets are self-policed by the players.

Winning come bets are paid the same as winning pass line bets-even money for the original bet and true odds for the odds bet.