Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sophomore, he is more than a match for the gangling giants he plays against. With his twisting one-hand jump shot Don easily earned the Most Valuable Player award at this winter's Orange Bowl tournament, almost alone has boosted Pitt to a 13-9 record.
Died. Dr. John Friend Mahoney. 67, longtime (1929-49) U.S. Public Health Service careerman, who developed the penicillin cure for venereal diseases early in World War II. won the American Public Health Association's Lasker Award for the work in 1946, in 1949 announced the complete success of his method, six years after he first used it to treat patients; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in New York City...
Muldoon also has a family. It consists of a waspish, bigoted little wife who seems to spend most of her considerable energy in making everybody including her husband feel uncomfortable. Mrs. Muldoon is played by Katherine Squire, who deserves some sort of award for a heroic, if unsuccessful, struggle in the face of overwhelming odds...
...more than Shirkhan's liquid leg action persuaded Judge Beatrice Godsol to pass over the other contenders and award to Shirkhan of Grandeur the bluest blue ribbon in U.S. dogdom. The fine fawn-and-white boxer, Ch. Barrage of Quality Hill, seemed tired by the two-day competition and stood before Judge Godsol with forefoot splayed. No one could look at the imported English Pekingese, Ch. Chik I'Sun of Caversham, and not remember that last year's winner was the toy poodle Ch. Wilber White Swan; for a toy to win twice...
Death Confirmed. George Sessions Perry, 46, towering (6 ft. 5 in.), Texas-born National Book Award-winning novelist (for Hold Autumn in Your Hand, in 1941), who covered the North African campaign in World War II for The New Yorker, wrote 145 stories and articles for the Saturday Evening Post (including many of the "Cities of America" series and a description of his fight against crippling rheumatoid arthritis); when his unclad body was found in a tidal stream near his home, two months after he disappeared (police theorized that he drowned himself; he had told friends that he heard voices...