Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...congratulate TIME on its portrayal of the new Navy and its appreciation of the superb leadership of Arleigh Burke? Last week President Eisenhower handed the Secretary of the Navy the highest award the Military Chaplains Association can present with this citation: "Recognizing the high quality of his moral leadership, his fine religious example, his dedication to the welfare of the men who serve under him, and his strong support of the work of his chaplains, the Military Chaplains Association confers upon the Honorable Charles A. Thomas, Secretary of the Navy, its Distinguished Service award...
...Fellowship for Social Justice of the American Unitarian Association, meeting in Boston, awarded its Holmes Weatherly Award for contributions to social progress to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and leader of the Negro bus boycott in Montgomery...
Charles P. Segal '57 won the undergraduate award for the best translation into Latin, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced. David B. Shillman received the honorable mention award...
...years of sensitive diplomatic assignments-Rome, Paris, Moscow, Madrid, London, Rio de Janeiro-U.S. Career Diplomat James Clement Dunn won wide respect as an urbane, wise, influential foreign-service officer. As U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1946-52), he merited the State Department's Distinguished Service Award for helping defeat the Communists in the critical 1948 elections (partially by dramatizing U.S. aid). As Ambassador to Spain (1953-55), he helped develop the new U.S. policy of good relations with Franco. Moving on to booming Brazil in February 1955, he concentrated on touring remote jungles and backwaters by jeep, plane...
...Finnish-born Eero Saarinen, 45, the Grand Architectural Award, at the Boston Arts Festival, for his design of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology chapel (TIME, June 29, 1953, et seq.), as "the strongest statement in terms of structure and space enclosure for its purpose . . . sensitivity to the use of materials and detail follow-through...