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Died. Francis Loftus Sullivan, 53, oleaginous (260 Ibs.) London-born menace of stage (Witness for the Prosecution) and screen (Great Expectations), who began trouping (1921) with London's Old Vic, won the 1955 Antoinette Perry Award for the year's best featured performance in his role of defense counsel in Witness; of lung cancer; in Manhattan...
...Milwaukee last week, the Radio Television News Directors Association presented the first annual Paul White* Memorial Award for "the most significant contribution to radio and television journalism during the past year." The winner: Hugh B. Terry, president of TIME'S radio-TV station KLZ in Denver...
Terry and KLZ won the award for their successful editorial fight against a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that would have barred news photographers and broadcasters from one of the year's most dramatic murder trials. In Denver Jack Graham was about to go on trial, charged with placing a time bomb aboard an airliner that blew up in midair, killing his mother and 43 other passengers and crewmen (TIME, Nov. 28). The court invoked longstanding Canon 35 of the American Bar Association code, which bans cameras from courtrooms. "I was home ill that day," recalled Colorado Supreme Court Justice...
...years with the foundation, Dr. Gregg refused all honorary degrees and awards lest acceptance embarrass him in dealing with donors. Last week Medical Statesman Gregg, 66 and now retired, accepted his first, well-earned award. In Atlantic City he received a special Albert Lasker Award of the American Public...
Retired General of the Army George Catlett Marshall, 75, who winters in North Carolina and summers in Virginia, was scheduled this week to receive the Woodrow Wilson Award for Distinguished Service for "meritorious service to democracy, public welfare, liberal thought, peace through justice...