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

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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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