Word: award
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...A.M.A. meeting. Perfectionist DeBakey phoned his secretary to check on patients, added a complaint: he had no white tie and tails with him, had to rent them for a ceremony. The House of Delegates, he explained as an afterthought, had just voted him its 1959 Distinguished Service Award. A gold medal with citation, it is the A.M.A.'s highest recognition for outstanding contributions to medical progress...
...such as to cause offense to diverse of Her Majesty's subjects." The couple's actual crime was nothing more than to kiss each other good night in a parked car. They spent their honeymoon money for their defense and were acquitted-but the judge refused to award them the costs of their defense. Similarly, last week American Actor Horace Marshall, who played God in the BBC-TV production of Green Pastures, was acquitted of living off the earnings of a prostitute, but though the London magistrate dismissed the case before Marshall even finished testifying, he refused...
Radcliffe will also award 23 Ph.D.'s at the traditional ceremonies this morning...
Harvard honoraries continued to catch up with the times four years ago with the recognition of "the other half"--the females. Helen Keller's award in 1955 was followed in 1957 by a doctorate for Lady Barbara Ward Jackson. Last year, both Nadia Boulanger (Mus. D.) and Eleanor Glueck (S.D.) were honored. These recent awards silenced many criticisms of the "discriminatory" system followed before 1955. By making Harvard honoraries open to both sexes, the Corporation continued the process of liberalization of degrees that started with John Winthrop and his 1773 LL.D...
Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Excerpts from three of Old Master Walt's Academy-Award-winning cartoons...