Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles, Test Pilot William B. Bridgeman, who has flown faster (1,238 m.p.h.) and higher (79,494 ft.) than any other human, received the Octave Chanute Award for "outstanding contributions to the knowledge of supersonics...
Last week, after sleeping on it for about 30 years, the Belgian government honored Leopold's pledge-and upped the award to $20,000. In Brussels, Dr. Pearce, 68, received from King Baudouin the lion's share of $10,000 and was made an officer of the Royal Order of the Lion. To Drs. Jacobs and Heidelberger went $2,000 each and the Order of Leopold II; to Dr. Brown's estate, his posthumous $4,000; and to that of Britain's late Dr. H. W. Thomas, who helped to develop atoxyl, $2,000. Despite...
...Picture for picture the feature-length film is quite as good as the book is word for word-there are glimpses of the green abyss of genesis that take the breath with their terror and loveliness. On this ground, there can be small quarrel with the Academy Award pronouncing The Sea the best Technicolor documentary made last year...
...Manhattan, for the second year in a row, the Harmon International Aviation Award for the year's outstanding performance by an aviatrix went to French Test Pilot Jacqueline Auriol, daughter-in-law of President Vincent Auriol. Her 1952 prizewinning feat: topping her own world's jet speed record for women by flying a 62-mile closed course at an average 531.843 m.p.h...
...research tool for U.S. industry. Its name: "time-lapse" photography, i.e., film sequences taken at regular intervals to catch the actual growth of plants, flowers, fungus, etc. Ott first caught the public eye two years ago with the growth sequences he made for Walt Disney's Academy Award-winning Nature's Half Acre. Last week he had 20 cameras at work on a new sequence for Disney's followup, Secrets of Life-plus a contract for regular showings of his flower-growth films on Dave Garroway's NBC-TV feature Today. But Ott's biggest...