Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college's Ward Medal "for proficiency in French" went to a classmate whose grades were lower. Four City College instructors indignantly declared that their department head, Professor William E. Knickerbocker, had passed Gurewitch over because...
City College announced that Gurewitch had been the victim of a "clerical error," gave him his medal six years late...
Sybil Kathigasu was flown to Britain, where the King gave her the George Medal for civilian heroism. Ten operations failed to knit together her broken body. During two years, in & out of British hospitals, she laboriously wrote her story, to be published under her underground code name, "Sab." "The world must know what kind of people these Japanese are," said Sybil. "Already memories are growing short...
...World War II, Marcus went back to the Army, won the Distinguished Service Medal for staff work. He was one of the first Americans to get a look at Dachau, where the Nazis had slaughtered thousands of his fellow Jews. Said he: "It made me fiercely interested in a Jewish state . . . where the Jews would not be a minority...
Yale's Carl Purington Rollins, 68, goateed graphic-arts professor and "Printer to Yale University" since 1920. Harvardman Rollins overhauled all of Yale's printing, from library cards to diplomas, designed more than 2,000 handsome books, won the gold medal of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (his favorite type face: Caslon old style...