Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crumpled brown suit, walked proudly across the stage of Washington's big Departmental Auditorium and shook the hand of Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Acheson had summoned 62-year-old Mar- vin Wilbur Will to present him with the Distinguished Service Medal, the department's highest award...
...fever (8,000,000 U.S. servicemen took the shots in World War II), Dr. Max Theiler, 52, of the Rockefeller Foundation, won the 1951 Nobel Prize in medicine: a gold medal and $32,357. Born in South Africa, Dr. Theiler has lived 29 years in the U.S. Of the award he said: "It looks as though yellow jack got me the jackpot...
Twice nominated for an Academy Award (for an Italian soldier in 1943's Sahara and the Mexican father in 1945's A Medal for Benny), Naish has been under contract to a studio only once, to Paramount in 1938. Since then he has freelanced, turning down half a dozen contract offers and as many chances to get star billing. "I like to go after roles," he says, "and when you're under contract, you've got to do what they want you to do." His next part: in RKO's forthcoming Clash by Night...
Playwright Clare Boothe Luce, winner of the 1951 Newman Club award for outstanding service in church and government, spoke out against one of the weaknesses of world government. At the Newman Club Federation convention in Wentworth-by-the-sea, N. H., she said: "The United Nations offers a tragic example of the frustration to which the most idealistic efforts of materialist man is doomed. The U.N. is a failure, not because unity among nations is undesirable or impossible. It is a failure because the spiritual conditions of unity are not present...
Business School faculty members gave highest honors in 15 Business students by mail yesterday. They named the men as Baker Scholars. This award has been given twice a year since 1930 to top students...