Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quakers share the 1947 award with the British Committee, whose representative, Miss Vagret Backhouse, will also be present at the ceremonies on Friday, when the award will be made in the presence of King Haakon, of Norway...
...Squirrel-toothed Joe DiMaggio (TIME, July 14), the man who makes the World Champion New York Yankees run, won the Baseball Writers' award as the American League's "most valuable player of 1947." One vote behind him: unlucky Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox, who also finished second to Joe six years ago, after batting a spectacular .406. The National League's most valuable player: Third-Baseman Bob Elliot of the third-place Boston Braves...
Only Crimson opponent to gain a first team award was Frank Burns, flashy T quarterback from Rutgers, who starred in the Scarlet's 31-7 rout on November...
...scorn vulgar popularity. He once wrote: "I have passionately desired fame . . . [but] I like to be liked on good grounds." Apparently Gide, who thinks membership in the French Academy is beneath him, thought the Swedish Academy liked him on good grounds. He said the Nobel award made him "very happy." He was also richer by 146,115 Swedish crowns...
...Springfield, Ohio, Autoist Vernon Boyer won an award for being a safe driver, celebrated, was presently arrested for drunken driving...