In 1999, Blitzer won the International Platform Association's Lowell Thomas Broadcast Journalism Award for outstanding contributions to broadcast journalism.

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W. Apple Jr. in his best Lowell Thomas imitation, under the headline AS PRESIDENT TESTIFIES, A SUBDUED CAPITAL WAITS FOR WORD. (How does the Timesman who reads the capital's moods distinguish among Subdued, Indifferent, Preoccupied and Vaguely Depressed?) Almost the entire front page was given over to the carnival.

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Among the post-1914 poets, it includes the likes of Yeats, Eliot, Lowell, Auden, Betjeman, Thomas and Heaney.

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Another Lowell pick: Fidelity Leveraged Company Stock (FLVCX), run by Thomas Soviero.

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Guitarist Dustin Boyer avoided quoting Lowell George's slide parts on the original, and drummer Alex Thomas propelled a winning "The Endless Plain of Fortune, " for which the orchestra played with a warm spirit befitting the Cale arrangement, adding bold strokes that jarred the cozy Brian Wilson-like misty serenity in the source material.

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