Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Honor Roll of Race Relations for 1940. (So was Jack Benny's, because he gave his Negro co-comedian "Rochester" roles not humiliating to the Negro race.) Self-made, sloganeering Henry T. Ewald, president of Detroit's great Campbell-Ewald agency, got 1940"s gold medal for a distinguished career in advertising. For his work with sex hormones and vitamin K (which clots blood, stops hemorrhages), Biochemist Edward A. Doisy of St. Louis University's Medical School won the Willard Gibbs Medal for 1941. The Chicago Symphony Orchestral Association gave $500 to Carl Eppert, winner...
...Jess Stacy, Hines, and Joe Sullivan. However his work on these records (take for example his long chorus on The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise) shows him to be definitely in their class. Consequently, it seems to me that the Hot Record Society deserves some sort of a medal for giving the breaks to a couple of the most exciting musicians you can hear today...
...Elisa. Army and Navy planes zoomed low over the Palace to drop bouquets of flowers. Happy Fulgencio Batista decreed that every child born on the same day (about 180 new Cubans arrive daily) should receive a brand-new ten-peso note, a five-peso savings account and a shinv medal...
...women from Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire entered the January 12 races. Eight of the men ran the approximately 2,000-foot course in less than a minute, the winner making it in 52 seconds. The winning woman ran a shorter course in 54 seconds. Each week a gold medal is awarded to the winners of both the men's and women's races. In addition, the lucky ticket holder each Sunday receives a free season pass for the Ossipee...
Conductor Mitropoulos is a pious Orthodox Catholic who always wears a crucifix and a medal of the Virgin, almost followed his family's bent toward the monastery. Composer and pianist, he was trained in Greece and Germany, built the orchestra of the Athens Conservatory, made his first U. S. splash in Boston. He looks somewhat like a figure from a can vas by another great Greek, Domenico Theotocopuli (called El Greco in Spain, where he lived). The Mitropoulitan way of playing music is a bit El Grecoesque: lean, angular, edgy, sometimes distorted...