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Read TIME to learn of achievements of Lieut. Colonel Harry G. Armstrong, who received the John Jeffries award for 1941, and the Collier award in 1939 for the outstanding achievement of the year in aviation medicine...
Joseph C. Grew '02, President of the Harvard Alumni Association and former Ambassador to Japan, will receive the Howland Memorial Prize April 14 and will also deliver a public lecture in accepting the award, Yale University announced yesterday. Envoy to Japan from 1932 up to the outbreak of war, Grew has only been in the country since the early part of last fall...
Thus Lieut. Colonel Felix Hardison, 31-year-old pilot of the Suzy-Q, won his ninth decoration. Staff Sergeant Kenneth Gradle of St. Louis, 2 2-year-old radioman on the plane that flew MacArthur out of the Philippines, received his eighth award, became the U.S.'s most decorated enlisted hero (he already wore the D.F.C. with oak leaf cluster, the silver star with two oak leaf clusters, the Purple Heart with one). Sergeant Gradle had flown on 60 missions, more than any other man in the 19th, and shot down six Zeros-more than enough to call himself...
Upon receipt of the annual award of the New York Academy of Public Education, President Conant will deliver an address to that group Thursday night on "Science and Society in the Post War World...
...award, a medal given for outstanding services to education, was usually made to some prominent leader of New York teaching. Conant's the first out-of-state man in many years to be bestowed with the honor...