Word: award
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though he usually stays on the ground, the Air Force's mild-mannered Lieut. Colonel John Paul Stapp, 45, got aviation's annual Cheney Award for his contributions to space medicine. Dr. Stapp's most spectacular bit of research: setting a world land-speed record of 632 m.p.h. on a rocket-propelled sled (TIME, Jan. 10) while testing firsthand the reactions of airmen to bullet-swift speeds and brain-jarring stops...
...movies. Frank Sinatra is currently in more demand than any other performer. His portrayal of Private Maggio in From Here to Eternity, which won him an Academy Award last year, burst on the public a new and fiercely burning star. To the amazement of millions, the boudoir johnny with the lotion tones stood revealed as a naturalistic actor of narrow but deep-cutting talents. He played what he is, The Kid from Hoboken, but he played him with rage and tenderness and grace, and he glinted in the barrel of human trash as poetically as an empty...
Later, Navy Secretary Charles Thomas gave him the Navy's Distinguished Public Service Award (for promoting interservice harmony). Talbott, who got into trouble for writing business letters on official stationery, brashly gave the assembled service officials some advice. "Do right," he said, grinning, "and don't write." His audience burst out laughing, and thick-skinned Harold Talbott strode cockily away with his medals, furled flags of office, and no visible scars...
...Washington's Smithsonian Institution). The film's Lindbergh will be played by lone-eaglish Cinemactor James (Strategic Air Command) Stewart, himself an Air Force Reserve colonel and wartime B-24 wing commander (20 missions), who last week got the Air Force's exceptional civilian service award for his help in promoting U.S. air power...
...healed, Campy went to town. He had the best hitting year for any catcher in the history of organized baseball. He caught 144 games (of 154 scheduled), got 162 hits, walloped 41 home runs, wound up with an average of .312 and the most-valuable-player award. Once more, the Yankees won the World Series...