“Thank you,” said Victor Lovins, N. Y. U. student who won first prize of twenty-five dollars in the Fifth Biggest Jewish News of the Week contest, “and let me add that it was one of the nicest surprises I’ve ever had in my life.”
“I saw the first announcement of the contest a few weeks ago,” he continued, “but to tell the truth I didn’t have the time to devote to it. Nevertheless, I still continued getting your paper because it gives me a knowledge of Jewish affairs that is important to my works. You see, I am a history student and I feel that the Jews today, as they always have, are playing an important part in world affairs. Your publication is really an up-to-date and current history book on Jews. I think you are doing a fine job.
“Well, some time ago I saw the Biro-Bidjan article and followed it closely. When the Soviet statement appeared, I felt that a letter to the editor was called for. However, I sent it to the contest editor as the most important topic of the year. I should have said generation. When I read my name in print last Friday and realized I had won first prize I cut my classes for the day. I went window shopping. Now that I have the money here’s a list of what I’m getting: Four history books, six ties, tickets for a show and ten bucks in the bank. Thanks again, and wish me luck. I’m entering your news contest from now until it ends.”
Of course, winners in this contest are greatly pleased with the results. They think the judges are impartial and a fine lot of old gentlemen. We’ve been hearing that since the contest started. The Contest Editor deemed it high time for his staff to call upon readers of the Bulletin who had entered this current news competition and had not won.
Mildred Kaplan, a student at Brooklyn College, told one of the Contest reporters that she had entered the Biggest News competion ‘ever since my cousin won a first prize.” She was referring to Anne Silverman of N. Y. U., who won a twenty-five dollar prize some weeks ago in her first try. “I’m pretty good at writing letters and I thought it would be a good idea to enter the contest,” Mildred said. “Although I haven’t won and after seeing the winning letters every Friday in the Bulletin I can readily understand why. I’m still trying.
“I only started getting the Bulletin a few weeks ago. I like the paper very much. Of course, there are some things stated in the editorial columns that I don’t agree with, but as a medium for Jewish news the world over I believe it is the best publication of its kind in the country.”
This contest is making many new friends for the Jewish Daily Bulletin. It is drawing others who have been reading the Bulletin regularly closer to it. All agree that this contest is a highly interesting, novel and informative competition.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
