Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While at Andover Academy, Ponte was awarded the Milton Collier prize for piano. At Harvard, Ponte is taking courses under Randall Thompson, professor of Music. Selections from Bach, Schubert, Franck, Chopin, Debussy and Bartok will be included in Ponte's program this afternoon...
...world." Term Indefinite. Then Harry Truman went back to Blair House, where he stayed awake until 11 o'clock listening to the late returns which nailed down the Demo cratic victories. Next day he confided to guests at a 64th birthday party for Secretary Charlie Ross (the prize gift: an imperial gallon of Scotch from White House reporters) that the election had been a wonderful satisfaction and that he had received even more messages of congratulation than he had after his own triumph a year...
...opener. The drug had passed the promising stage, had shown impressive results over a two-year period in the treatment of 7,000 patients. And behind its discovery and development was the potent name of Professor Gerhard Domagk, 54, who won fame-and a 1939 Nobel Prize, which the Nazis would not let him take-as top man in perfecting the sulfa drugs...
...physics. One day last week, Yukawa dismissed his class for the day and reported to the office of Columbia's President Dwight Eisenhower. There he received a warm handshake and hearty congratulations. At 42, Hideki Yukawa had become the first of his countrymen to win a Nobel Prize. The $30,000 prize in physics was awarded for the theory Yukawa had propounded 14 years ago. (The Nobel Prize in chemistry went to University of California Professor William F. Giauque -pronounced Gee-oke-for his studies in the behavior of matter at very low temperatures...
...similar studies on stimulation of the parts of the brain controlling the functions of internal organs, Dr. Walter Rudolph Hess (TIME, Nov. 7) received this year's Nobel Prize in medicine...