Word: medals
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Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Harvard College Observatory, will receive the Franklin Medal for 1945 in ceremonies at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia on April...
...medal is awarded to "workers in physical science or technology, without regard to country, whose efforts have done most to advance a knowledge of physical science or its application...
...vast, humming workshops have multiplied manyfold since 1940, when, in all England, there was but one drop hammer-a prewar, German-made model-capable of forging the life-&-death Spitfire crankshafts. (The man in charge of operating that precious hammer, 49-year-old William Forster, received the British Empire Medal in 1943; but only last week, when the story was told in Parliament, did Britons find out why.) Already, those desperate days seemed far away...
Captain Jonathan Wainwright 5th, son of the Japs' No. 1 U.S. prisoner of war, and a veteran of the U.S. Merchant Marine since 1933, was decorated with the Mariner's Medal for injury received in enemy action...
Married. Technical Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, 24, rugged, rusty-haired "one man army," Congressional Medal of Honor winner (for killing 40 Nazis with assorted weapons in a single engagement); and plump brunette May Frances Boish, 19, whom he met last year when their home town Pittsburgh celebrated his homecoming; in Phenix City...