Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Academy of Arts & Letters conferred its Good Speech Medal on Alfred Lunt (whose co-star wife, Lynn Fontanne, won the medal...
...Drama League of New York gave Ingrid Bergman a medal for the season's "most distinguished performance" in Maxwell Anderson's Joan of Lorraine...
...buying the first poppy of the Veterans of Foreign Wars' 1947 sale from six-year-old Saundra Fay Hall, gave her in return a little silver sombrero he had picked up in Mexico. Later that afternoon he drove over to the Bethesda Naval Hospital to pin a Medal of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster on ailing, aging former Secretary of State Cordell Hull...
...months ago the University of Buffalo awarded its Chancellor's Medal to the president of Bell Aircraft Corp. with an impressive citation: "Lawrence Dale Bell. . . . You have won undisputed leadership in your chosen calling and have dignified Buffalo in the eyes of the world...
...late N. C. (for Newell Convers) Wyeth, a top U.S. illustrator of children's books. But they were even more disarmingly realistic than N.C.'s paintings had been. Last week the American Academy of Arts and Letters announced that it will give its 1947 Award of Merit Medal (and the $1,000 which goes with it) to Andrew Wyeth. The Academy makes its award to a painter only once every five years (1942 winner: Veteran Charles Burchfield...