Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief hobby. Since 1926 he has competed in the Gold Cup class with two white craft named Imp. In 1929 he won the Gold Challenge Cup; in 1930 made a record for the fastest 30-mi. heat in that class (61.5 m.p.h.). Also in 1930 he was awarded the medal of the Regatta Circuit Riders' Club for having done most for motorboating. Racer Hoyt has a reputation among his opponents as a daring driver, a "grand sport." His mechanic says: "There are only two positions on his throttle: tight closed and wide open...
...Penrose Medal...
During this period, the Penrose medal of the Society, named in honor of its founder, Dr. R. A. F. Penrose, Jr. '84, will be awarded to Dr. E. O. Ulrich of the U. S. Geological Survey. The medal, which is of gold, is awarded for outstanding contribution in geological science and is given in this case for the research work of Dr. Ulrich in Paleozoic stratigraphy. He is the fifth recipient of the award...
...Four weeks ago the U. S. Immortals assembled to honor one of their most distinguished members, 72-year-old Gari Melchers. On the 50th anniversary of his first exhibited painting, "The Letter," shown in the Paris Salon of 1882, they held a dinner, presented him with a gold medal and turned over their gallery to a memorial exhibition of his work. Last week they draped the door in black and tacked gold palm leaves to the frame of his self-portrait. Gari Melchers had died suddenly at his Virginia country place, of heart failure...
...artists have been so honored in their lifetime. Born in Detroit in 1860, Gari Melchers was sent abroad at 17 to study painting-at Düsseldorf because his cautious parents considered Paris no place for a young man from Detroit. At 29 he won the grand medal of honor in the Paris Salon, an honor only two other U. S. artists have won (John Singer Sargent and James Abbott McNeill Whistler...