Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tufts University and the University of Pennsylvania announced yesterday that they will award President Pusey honorary degrees...
...Award for the cover story on Gold Coast Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah (TIME, Feb. 9, 1953). Fifteen months ago. Campbell moved to New Delhi after 17 years in Africa...
...give an added fillip to its annual luncheon, France's Goncourt Academy (which meets this week to bestow its award and bestsellerdom on a French author) has invited an artist to come make its family portrait. When news of the artist's name was announced, Le Figaro Litter air e issued a warning: "Under the circumstances, it will be necessary to banish the bottles and partridges from the tables, for the painter honored by the Goncourt does not like rosy cheeks, but prefers gaunt figures bent over plates garnished with fish vertebrae." The guest artist: Bernard Buffet...
Highlight of the dinner was the presentation of an award for "outstanding contribution to football" to former Dartmouth football coach "Tuss" Mc Laughry...
After a few more captains thanked everyone from their high school coach to the lowest substitute on their team for their success, Geary O'Leary, a Holy Cross halfback, received the Senior Achievement Award, given to the New England player who shows the most "courage and determination." After breaking that three operations were required to mend it, O'Leary came back to play football again this year only to break the leg again...