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Such simple programming may not be anything to write home about, but Music 'til Dawn gets a remarkable 15,000 letters of gratitude annually. This year it won a Peabody Award "for unique contribution to the culture of America...
...governors of the nation's twelve provinces did as they were told. They had been summoned to Kinshasa (formerly Leopoldville) to receive the Order of the Leopard, an award Mobutu invented for "exceptional services" and had already passed out to his Cabinet. For last week's ceremony, the governors showed up in Kinshasa's Place Braconnier in a sartorial array of cutaway coats, tails, business suits and even one black corduroy jacket. When they were properly in line, Mobutu marched stiffly down the ranks, planting a medal on each chest and a noisy kiss on each neck...
Last week, by strange coincidence, the two met again in Geneva, N.Y. During the winter, the Medical Women's International Association had picked its president, Pediatrician Fe del Mundo, to receive its Elizabeth Blackwell award, named for the first woman to earn an M.D. degree in the U.S. The scene for the ceremony was the Geneva campus of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, for it was in Geneva in 1849 that Elizabeth Blackwell became a doctor...
...made the most heartfelt speech at the presentation of the award was Dr. Albert E. Holland, Dr. del Mundo's long-lost friend from Santo Tomas. After his release, Holland had turned from business to education, and last spring Hobart's trustees picked him to take over as president, beginning this month...
Director Alfred Hitchcock will appear in Agassiz at 3 p.m. Thursday to receive an honorary award from the Harvard Dramatics Club...