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Last week the A.M.A. gave its Distinguished Service Award (gold medal plus citation) to Dr. Tom Douglas Spies (rhymes with fees), an eccentric bachelor who, at 55, has no home, but lives out of a suitcase in a hotel wherever he happens to be working. About eight months of the year this is Birmingham; for two months it may be Havana or San Juan; the rest of the time it is Chicago, where Spies heads Northwestern University's department of nutrition and metabolism. Since his school days, pellagra has been almost completely banished from the U.S. And, for this...
...much for the audience-and the Scripps-Howard representative. Said he wearily, as Sandra realized that a tie can be as sweet as a victory: "We're so tickled to have such top spellers that we've decided to award first prizes of $1,000 to both girls...
STOCK TIP-OFF is stirring more trouble in Washington, this time over Office of Defense Mobilization's decision to award Idaho Power Co. a fast tax write-off for Hells Canyon dams (TIME, April 15). Senator Estes Kefauver's antimonopoly subcommittee is investigating to find out why trading in Idaho Power jumped from 800 shares to 4,300 shares on April 17, the day ODM acted, though no public announcement was made until April 25. Maximum gain for those who bought early: about $3.50 per share...
...William J. Bingham Award for leadership and ability on the athletic field went to John A. Simourian '57; the Wister Prize to Robert S. Freeman '57 as the senior concentrator with the highest scholastic record in the Music Department; and the Eric Firth Prize to Tatsuo Arima '57 for a thesis entitled, "Uchimura Kanzo: A Case Study of the post-Meiji Japanese Intelligentsia...
College administrators and grad school admissions officers say that they are satisfied with grades as forecasters, though they readily admit that a personal appraisal is superior, when they personally know the candidates for some award. But the idiosyncrasies of far-flung deans limit the wide application of such an approach...