Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They are Jerome Patrick Gavin '50 of Adams House and Los Angeles, who won the undergraduate first prize of $500; Carl Ray Woodring 3G of Cambridge and Edward Hoagland Brown '41 3L of Cambridge and Deal, New Jersey, who split the graduate award and gleaned $300 apiece...
William Randolph Hearst, long ailing at his Beverly Hills home, didn't come downstairs on his 85th birthday to accept the Air Force's meritorious service award (son Randolph accepted for him). Later on he struggled down to look at his cake...
...York Herald Tribune's Bert Andrews, who forced the State Department to modify its high-handed security rules on its employees, and the Minneapolis Tribune's Nat S. Finney, who uncovered the Administration's peacetime censorship plan. Theirs was a joint award for distinguished reporting of national affairs...
...Baltimore Sun's Paul Ward, for distinguished reporting of international affairs (life in the U.S.S.R.). The award for international news reporting was skipped, for the second year...
Besides listening to these and many other papers, the Academy presented an award in absentia to Dr. Alexander G. Vologdin of the U.S.S.R. for work on Pre-Cambrian algae. Dr. Vologdin, who wrote that he could not come to receive the award, explained that he had "a bronchial ailment...