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Bernard Baruch, twice in two days cited and dined, received the 1944 Churchman award and the 1944 National Institute of Social Sciences medal, both for humanitarianism. At the Churchman dinner Elder Statesman Baruch spoke words of humanitarian wisdom: "We are the most powerful nation in the world. . . . When the war is over no country will be able to improve the well-being of its people without our help. ... In another day, Cicero said the proudest boast a man could utter was 'Civis Romanus sum.' It is my prayer that our conduct may always be such as to carry...
Head of the department of virus diseases at the Institute of Experimental Medicine in Moscow, Dr. Smorodintzov received the Stalin Award for Distinguished Service for his work in encephalitis. He is in America as a guest of the Rockefeller Foundation, this being his first visit outside Russia...
...Sigma Delta Chi's Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for distinguished war correspondence...
...Fleming (who discovered it) and Dr. Florey (who made it tick) have got nothing out of it but praise-doctors generally do not patent drugs. Penicillin will save more lives than war spends, but there has been no military citation. Most tangible recognition so far was the Award of Merit of the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association given to Drs. Fleming & Florey last December. Several months ago, a proposal to give Dr. Fleming a grant from the public funds was brought up in Parliament, but nothing came...
...more than one respect, Franz Werfel's "Song of Bernadette" resembles Richard Llewelyn's recent best-seller and Academy award winner, "How Green Was My Valley." The same rural life, though this time in France, the same genuine sentiments of the peasantry, and the moral lesson can be found in each. However, a sullen resignation to the "Gilded Age' in Llewelyn's picture contrasts with a positive affirmation of a better life beyond this in the "Song of Bernadette...