Word: medals
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...official comings & goings. Winston Churchill arrived for the full brandy-and-cigar treatment at a formal presidential dinner in Blair House (see The Nation). There was a little dinner for outgoing Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal and, later, a surprise ceremony to give Jim the Distinguished Service Medal. Incoming Secretary Louis Johnson was eager to take over, so the transfer was moved ahead four days, and early this week he was publicly installed at the Pentagon in the biggest swearing-in ceremony ever held for a Cabinet member...
...corrugated Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy-presidential chief of staff for both Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman-who had been ailing, and writing his war memoirs since Jan. 1. In a little ceremony at the White House, Harry Truman awarded Billy Leahy his third Distinguished Service Medal, pinned the medal with two gold stars on his beribboned jacket...
...American Chemical Society yesterday awarded the Priestley Medal to Arthur B. Lamb '05, Erving Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus and former Director of the Chemistry Laboratories...
Retired editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and member of the College Faculty since 1912, Lamb will receive the medal at the society's fall meeting in Atlantic City, New Jersey...
Recipient of the William N. Nichols Medal in 1940 for his work with poison gas, he was a leader in defense chemical research in both wars. Until his retirement in 1948, Lamb was the lecturer in Chemistry...