I just got a comment on my post about the 1954 Boys’ Life Radio Contest. It came from W6FY, who was the winner of the 1957 contest under his then call K9CNC. You can see a photo of him sitting in front of his prize, a DX-100, at his QRZ.com biography. As an interesting coincidence, I just featured a photo of another DX-100 in a post two days ago.
His comment about how this prize changed his life is worth reading.