Word: medalling
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Both Graves and McCarthy were on the 1976 U.S. women's team that won a bronze medal in the Montreal Olympics...
...Presidents have spent much time posing for the portrait-bearing gold medal they get as an Inaugural gift. But Ronald Reagan not only agreed to three sittings, he had a life mask made. Only Abe Lincoln, whose likeness was sculpted in 1860, had been so masochistic. For 20 minutes the President-elect sat motionless, slathered crown to collarbone with silicone goop, straws jutting from his ears and nostrils. After the 20-minute ordeal, Sculptor Edward Fraughton pronounced him a model model: "He's used to being made up." But not quite so heavily. "Boys," cracked Reagan, "there...
...Oxonian, Lewis Carroll, had produced the Alice books. But seldom have parents and children been offered such a multitude of first-rate works (see box) along with the customary flood. Such volumes are candidates for two librarians' awards of growing importance in the industry: the Randolph J. Caldecott Medal, named for a prominent 19th century illustrator and given "for recognition of the most distinguished American picture book for children"; and the John Newbery Medal, named after the 18th century printer and bookseller who is the "father" of children's books in English and given "for recognition...
Jose L. Sert, former dean of the Graduate School of Design and architect of the Science Center and Holyoke Center, last week won the 1981 Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects...
...will present the Gold Medal--which it considers a mark of the "most distinguished service to the architectural profession or to the institute"--to Sert at its 1981 national convention in Minneapolis...