Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city of Portland, Ore., which won the 1950 Community Human Relations Award for easing religious and racial tensions, voted down an ordinance which would have made it illegal to refuse service to non-whites in stores, hotels and restaurants...
Professor Cecil Frank Powell, 46, the committeeman who won the $31,715 prize for physics, got his award for developing a simple method of probing the secrets of the atom nucleus with photographic plates, and his discoveries regarding mesons, the particles believed to hold the nucleus together. Powell, who leans to the left politically but denies he is a Communist, told reporters he could not spare the time from his job at Bristol University to go either to Sheffield or Warsaw, even though he backs the congress' aims to the hilt. He declared: "Everything possible should be done...
...radio & TV editors the tradesheet Radio Daily last week an nounced their favorite shows and perform ers of 1950. In the TV documentary field MARCH OF TIME'S filmed Crusade in Eu rope (ABC-TV) scored a repeat win (first telecast in 1949, Crusade won a Peabody Award). Documentary honors in radio went to NBC's four-part atomic program The Quick and the Dead, starring Bob Hope...
...White House rose garden, President Truman presented the Harmon international aviation trophy, topnotch aviation award, to the outstanding aviator, aviatrix and aeronaut of the past decade: Lieut. General James H. Doolittle, wartime boss of the Eighth Air Force, leader of the first Tokyo raid; Jacqueline Cochran, wartime head of WASP, and dirigible expert Vice Admiral Charles E. Rosendahl (retired), wartime chief of Naval Airship Training...
Presentation of the award will be made in the spring at a luncheon given by the Fellows of the department...