Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the Atomic Energy Commission to Hungarian-born Mathematician John Von Neumann, 52, pioneer developer of electronic brains and an AECommissioner, went a tax-free $50,000 for aiding the U.S. atomic energy program-second such award ever given (the first: to the late Nuclear Physicist Enrico Fermi...
Just a farm boy in Manhattan to get an Albert Einstein Commemorative Award, snow-topped Poet Carl Sandburg, 78, downed some scrambled eggs and deplored the U.S.'s manner of pursuing happiness. Result of the pursuit: "Fat-dripping prosperity." Said the Illinois sage: "When the goal of a country is only happiness and comfort, there is danger. Albert Einstein said as much . . . Listen, 'To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me.' You see, he wants the element of struggle in life." What is life's main purpose? "Before...
John Charlton Crawford, a first year student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the Francis Boott Prize for 1955-56. He receieved the award and a prize of $100 for a composition for mixed chorus and strings, entitled "Magnificat...
Master Gordon M. Fair of Dunster House, one of the Faculty sponsors of Inter-House Debating, presented, in lieu of the absent trophy, a certificate of award to Roger D. Irle '56 who with teammates, Thomas Bergin '57, and David Levinson formed the winning Dunster team...
Gordon M. Fair, master of Dunster House, one of the original sponsors of the inter-House debaters, will moderate the championship contest and award a trophy to the winner...