61.   Franey gave first prize to some wealthy patron of the arts who had hired a pastry chef to create a masterpiece out of spun sugar.

62.   Gresh has written for Boston Ballet publications and was awarded first prize for prose fiction last year from the Trinity English department.

63.   He has taken first prize in three international competitions, and he has performed in China, Europe, Japan and the United States.

64.   He has not won any major first prizes at Western competitions, but Babakhanian has a strong record of finishing in the money.

65.   He still has either the defending champion Yevgeny Kafelnikov or the pesky Swede Magnus Norman to contend with for first prize Sunday.

66.   Her poster drawing of the hypothetical double-dutch machine won her a first prize in a schoolwide competition.

67.   I feel she was the first prize of a raffle, and I was lucky enough to win her.

68.   I feel like she was first prize of a raffle, so to speak.

69.   If there were a first prize in this column for beauty of statement and probity of elucidation, this catalogue would run away with it.

70.   I never won first prize before, and I needed that psychologically.