Word: award
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Comedienne Ray Dooley. He grew up to make a career of combat. He was in the front lines at Guadalcanal, covered the Allied campaign in New Guinea, watched the Japanese surrender in Manila Bay as a World War II correspondent for the Chicago Sun. He won the Ernie Pyle award in 1946 for distinguished war reporting. Death nearly touched him more than once: in Burma he escaped the massacre of the Chinese unit to which he was attached, and on Leyte a bomb fatally wounded three U.S. newsmen sleeping alongside...
...award of $112,291 is "a mere token," reflected Judge Fred A. Young in Manhattan last week, "for all the wealth of the State of New York could not compensate the claimant for the mental anguish suffered through nearly twelve years of false imprisonment, under the impression that he would be there for the rest of his life...
Straight-Line Theory. How could all this be? The 1,000-odd doctors who sat in on the polio symposium learned something of this from Dr. Salk himself. They had gone there, full of admiration and curiosity, to hear him and see him get a $10,000 award* for his achievements. They listened attentively, some with obvious puzzlement, as he read a long and tightly technical report. Its net: mass manufacture was not the same as making vaccine in his precisely controlled laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh...
...Ames Award...
...Ames Award will be presented by R. Colin MacLaurin '33 to two outstanding seniors whose names will be announced at the ceremonies. Established in memory of Richard G. and Harry R. Ames, two brothers who died at sea, the prize is given for self-reliance, character, and leadership...