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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major-General Frederick F. Russell, professor of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, emeritus, was honored yesterday for his outstanding medical services when the Association of American Physicians, the country's most exclusive medical group, decided to award him its 1940 Kober medal...
...Award of nine graduate followships of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, totalling $12,000, for study in the next academic year, was announced by the University today...
...award of $50 went to Douglas C. Stenerson '42 of Kirkland House, for a paper entitled "Rolvaag, Immigrant." Stenerson, himself of Norwegian descent and a resident of Minnesota, discussed the life and novels of Rolvaag, who came to that state from the Land of the Fjords...
...Arthur Stratton of Clinton, Mass., ambulance driver on muddy French war roads, went France's first World War II decoration for bravery by an American volunteer. His award: Croix de Guerre with palm. His deed: evacuation of badly wounded troops on the Western Front under machine-gun cross fire, heavy artillery bombardment...
...Congress was ready to award him $100,000, but Chemist Jackson stormed Washington, violently denounced Morton as a fraud, claimed that he had given Morton the tip on the powers of ether. Up popped Dr. Long with a sheaf of documents to prove that he was first. Confronted by conflicting claims, Congress did nothing. Morton died a pauper in 1868. Jackson went mad, died in an asylum several years later. During the Civil War, Long buried his documents in the woods. Later he dug them up and stored them in the garret. He died an embittered...