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When The Churchman, the nation's oldest religious journal, offered its annual "Good Will Award" to Secretary of State George Marshall last fall, a State Department aide readily accepted for the secretary. In previous years the award had gone to such distinguished figures as Madame Chiang Kaishek, Wendell Willkie and General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Then someone took another look at The Churchman and its editor, Guy Emery Shipler...
...Russia, its frequent blasts against U.S. foreign policy. Editor Shipler himself had been in hot water last fall after his firsthand report that there was no suppression of religious freedom in Communist Yugoslavia (TIME, Sept. 1). Last week, Shipler admitted that Marshall had suddenly decided not to accept the award...
...Seattle, a Silver Buffalo-highest award in U.S. Scouting-was presented to Songwriter Irving Berlin at the annual banquet of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America. The banqueters were entertained by a group of high-school singers, who for half an hour sang popular songs, all of them by Songwriter Jerome Kern. At a Manhattan Scout-o-Rama, the Cubs honored Margaret Truman with their "Grand Howl." Replied Margaret...
Actual ceremonies open with addresses by men graduating with special honors, after which President Conant will award degrees to the 2,265 graduates and to recipients of honorary degrees...
Under the system, missing Group Three rating by a narrow margin would not mean automatic loss of a scholarship, Dean Leighton said. Instead the board would consider such factors as other activities, special recommendations, and actual need of individual cases before the award was withdrawn...