Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Utrecht, goldsmiths were fashioning another special award: a richly jeweled sword which Queen Wilhelmina will present to General Eisenhower. The Dutch newspaper Het Binnenhoj rhapsodized: "It will be a sword as worn by the kings of fairyland, and it is well earned...
...nearest (though not very near) thing to a fine artist in the medium of U.S. radio is Norman Corwin. Few dramatists reach so wide an audience-a fact that last February helped him win the first Wendell Willkie One World Award: a round-the-world trip designed to dramatize, as did Willkie's, the adjacence of everywhere...
During World War II, Kane served as Special Assistant to the Attorney General in Washington, was in charge of intelligence operations for the Office of War Information and was Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy. Participating in the San Francisco conference, Kane received the Distinguished Civilian Service Award...
Militarism and Harvard were recently thrown into the came wastebasket by that dyspeptic surveyor of the preparatory school, Porter Sargent '96, writing the yearly preface to his "Handbook of Private Schools." The latest of the last straws for the dean of Beacon Street was the simultaneous award last June of honorary Doctor of Laws degrees to four of the nation's top war commanders. When Generals MacArthur and Marshall return to pick up the two additional degrees promised them in their absence, Mr. Sargent's disgust will probably be complete. It has a right to be. Not only...
Five of last Commencement's thirteen award recipients were honored because of their military service service not necessarily in excess of duty. One degree to the Chief of Staff, symbolizing the whole staff might have sufficed. Another five were honored for their direct connections with the University. Deserving as they undoubtedly were, their merits were largely intramural and might have been recognized in a less ostentatious manner. Of the remaining three, the more recent works of one, at least, could hardly earn him a greater reputation than that of a Reader's Digest hack writer, leading the observer of such...