Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paul Dudley White in Boston this week went a special $1,000 Lasker Award for three decades of worldwide pioneering in the study and treatment of the heart. Accepting it, Dr. White made no mention of the whale. He went back to the ancient virtues. In this push-button age, he said, man is overeating and pampering himself. He should walk to work, ride a bicycle for exercise (as Dr. White still does), shovel snow up to the age of 70 or 80 if his heart is sound, and not be afraid of stairs even if his heart...
Richard E. Johnson '53 of Dunster House and Galesburg, Illinois, past president of the Student Council, shared the Paul Revere Frothingham Award with Henry J. Landau '53 of Adams House and New York City, president of PBH, given in recognition of "excellent scholarship, manliness, and effective support of the best interests of Harvard University...
...highest academic standing of any senior majoring in Government brought Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. '53 of Leverett House and Columbus, Ohio the Charles Joseph Bonaparte Award, given each year to that Government major who gives promise of raising the standards of government and citizenship...
George L MacDonald, Jr. 55, Eliot and Marblehead, Mass is the first student to be awarded the new Frank B McQuesten Memorial scholarship. The award is for the current academic year...
Died. Nila Mack, 62, for 23 years writer-producer-director of the Peabody Award-winning children's program Lets Pretend (CBS's oldest continuous dramatic show); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Blonde, childless Widow Mack's Saturday fairy-tale program espoused courtesy and kindness, has long been something of an anachronism on air waves full of G-men, spacemen and cowboy mayhem, yet continues to draw 500-odd letters a week...