Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charles. In that month Whitman Hobbs in an obscure article buried deep in the Lampoon, gave his impressions of the cinema "worsts" of the year. For a month nothing happened. Then the shrewd press agent of one of the forty or so actors and actresses given the Hobbsian Academy award saw the potentiality of the article. The resulting famous altercation between "Oomph Girl" Ann Sheridan and the 'Poon became known all over the country. It was the only incident that was not staged and pre-arranged. This lone incident in which Harvard was not made to look silly reached...
Bayonet. Sergeant John Daniel Hinton, onetime truck driver, now a prisoner in Germany, made V.C. history. For the first time the award was granted on the basis of accounts of Sergeant Hinton's exploits sent to friends by his fellow prisoners...
...late Paul Smith, Adirondack mountain guide who made a fortune running a hotel. It has a president (Peddie School's Teacher Earl C. MacArthur), a campus (the hotel grounds in Paul Smiths, N.Y.), an administration building, a charter-and it expects to have a student body and award degrees. But it will have no teachers, books or courses. It plans to send its students elsewhere to get an education...
Watch on the Rhine. Lillian Hellman's potent anti-Nazi drama, which won the Critics' Circle award last year...
Inaccurately paraphrased in last Thursday's story, Dean Landis's statement on his own unofficial interpretation of the rule follows: "I should assume that the Administrative Board of the University would award an A.B. degree to men drafted after four years of study and who thereafter for some justifiable reason do not return to the University to complete their course...