Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France's sixth annual Kermesse aux Etoiles (Carnival of Stars), President Vincent Auriol awarded French Oscars (bronze statuettes of Winged Victory) to a number of movie stars, including Gary Cooper and Gregory Peck. When his award was announced, Hollywood's Cooper applauded vigorously. After nudging him into silence, Cinemactress Gisele Pascal explained her tall friend's embarrassing antics to the astonished crowd: "He doesn't understand a word of French...
...first hint was a press announcement that Gregory Ivanovich Petrovsky was to get a special award. Ukrainians recognized the name of an almost forgotten Ukrainian Bolshevik who disappeared in the 1938 purge after being charged with "bourgeois nationalism." A few weeks later, Soviet Playwright Alexander Korneichuk, wartime foreign minister of the Ukraine dismissed in 1944 on the same charge, was reinstated as Vice Premier. Last week the switch went the full 180 degrees: the Ukraine's Communist Party boss, Leonid Melnikov, a Moscow bureaucrat, was fired for "profound mistakes in the selection of personnel and the carrying...
...These ranged from stomach troubles to surgeons' fees. But none drew more attention, from general practitioners and specialists alike, than affairs of the heart and arteries, whose diseases are far & away the commonest cause of death in the U.S. today. By coincidence, the A.M.A. also voted its highest award this year to a famed heart surgeon (see below...
Last week the A.M.A.'s House of Delegates voted to add the association's Distinguished Service Award, a citation anc medal, but no cash, to the lengthening list of honors given Surgeon Blalock, 54, for his efforts to help all victims of heart anc artery disorders, blue babies among them...
Thirty-one seniors will receive magna cum laude degrees, and Radcliffe president Wilbur K. Jordan will award 71 master of arts degrees, 34 master of arts degrees in teaching, and 17 doctor of philosophy degrees...