Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

With the announcement of a `` special achievement award '' to William A. ( ( Bill ) Shea, the awards list was completed yesterday for Sunday night's thirty-eighth annual dinner and show of the New York Chapter, Baseball Writers' Association of America, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

The most valuable player award was split three ways, among Glen Mankowski, Gordon Hartweger and Tom Kieffer.

In addition, a special award was given to Bob ( Bevo ) Nordmann, the 6-foot-10 center who missed much of the season because of a knee injury.

The award was made by Judge Fred B. Perkins who heard their petition without a jury by agreement of the parties.

The Oscar itself was later initiated by the Academy as an award " of merit for distinctive achievement " in the industry.

He was posthumously awarded Pakistan's highest military award Nishan-e-Haider ( Sign of the Lion ) for his act of bravery.

Matiur Rahman was awarded Bangladesh's highest military award, Bir Sreshtho, for his attempt to defect to join the civil war in east.

In 1962, Giacometti was awarded the grand prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale, and the award brought with it worldwide fame.

) This also meant that with this title, he was the first black artist to win this highest to win award in the Netherlands.

( When the award name was changed in 1954, Capp also retroactively received a Reuben statuette.

Since the award was not as effective at advertising as Chalmers had hoped, it was discontinued after 1914.

The award was established in 1940 by the Chicago chapter of the BBWAA, which selected an annual winner from 1940 through 1946.

One award was presented for both leagues in 1947 and 1948 ; since 1949, the honor has been given to one player each in the National and American League.

Originally, the award was known as the J. Louis Comiskey Memorial Award, named after the Chicago White Sox owner of the 1930s.

The award was renamed the Jackie Robinson Award in July 1987, 40 years after Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color line.

He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for gallant leadership: the citation for this award, published in the London Gazette in December 1914 reads:

Watterson was awarded the National Cartoonists Society's Humor Comic Strip Award in 1988 and the society's Reuben Award in 1986 ; he was the youngest person ever to receive the latter award.

The award, created by the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America ( BBWAA ) in honor of Babe Ruth, was first awarded in 1949, one year after Ruth's death.

Greetings was entered into the 19th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won a Silver Bear award.

Centerfielder Adam Jones was named to the 2009 All Star team and awarded a Gold Glove award for his defensive play.

He won the Man of the Match award for both matches and was also named Man of the Series.

A separate " award " was soon enacted for Night BASE jumping when Mayfield completed each category at night, becoming Night BASE # 1, with Smith qualifying a few weeks later.

Post Office Department officials, realizing the need for faster mail service, had begun drawing up a contract to award to either the Plant System ( then known as the Savannah, Florida and Western ) or the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, both of which operated south of the ACL termination point of Charleston, South Carolina.

programs are no longer limited to Clinical Psychology as several professional schools have begun to award professional doctorates in Business Psychology or Organizational Development.

When Lowell learned in 1933 that other American schools had begun to award the Associate in Arts degree to students after the equivalent of just two years of work, he felt betrayed.

In 2002, EGM has also begun giving games that earned unanimously bad scores a " Shame of the Month " award.

In the United Kingdom, the colleges of the University of London and the University of Wales perform almost all the duties of a university with the exception of the awarding of degrees ( although some of the larger colleges of the University of London, such as University College London, King's College London and the London School of Economics, have recently begun to award their own degrees ).

* 1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.

It was shown in competition at the 1963 Venice Film Festival, where it won the award for Best First Work.

In 1963, Sandy Koufax became the first pitcher to win the award in a unanimous vote ; two years later he became the first multiple winner.

He hosted his own variety hour on CBS television, The Danny Kaye Show, from 1963 to 1967, which won four Emmy awards and a Peabody award.

In the words of his biographer, Pei has won " every award of any consequence in his art ", including the Arnold Brunner Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters ( 1963 ), the Gold Medal for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters ( 1979 ), the AIA Gold Medal ( 1979 ), the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture from the Japan Art Association ( 1989 ), the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, and the 2010 Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Harakiri won him an award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival, solidifying his place in the history of cinema.

From 1960 to 1964, he had a television series, It's a Square World, which won a BAFTA award in 1962 and Grand Prix de la Presse at Montreux in 1963.

On 3 December 1963, U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson posthumously awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States ' highest civilian award, in recognition of the good relationship between Pope John and the United States.

Among honors which Smith received over the years were DuPont Awards in 1955 and 1963, a Sigma Delta Chi Award for radio journalism in 1957, and an award from the American Jewish Congress in 1960.

* 1963: no award

The Mystery Writers of America gave her their Edgar Allan Poe award in 1963 for Death and the Joyful Woman.

He also won the 1963,, and 1966 Cy Young Awards by unanimous votes, making him the first 3-time Cy Young winner in baseball history and the only one to win 3 times when the award was for all of baseball, not just one league.

Allen won a Grammy award in 1963 for best jazz composition, with his song The Gravy Waltz.

He returned to TV in 1963 with The Charlie Drake Show, a compilation of which won an award at the Montreux Festival in 1968.

Le Carré's book won a 1963 Gold Dagger award from the British Crime Writers Association for " Best Crime Novel ".

* 1963 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award given to a U. S. citizen, for his work in optics.

In 1963, the entire Rambler line received the Motor Trend Car of the Year award.

In 1963, the novel was awarded a William Faulkner Foundation award for best debut novel.

Gillian Wearing OBE RA ( born 1963 ) is an English conceptual artist, one of the YBAs, and winner of the annual British fine arts award, The Turner Prize, in 1997.

In 1963 Quant was the first winner of the Dress of the Year award.

Rozelle's " aptitude for conciliation " with the league's owners and his work in expanding the NFL however, led to his receiving Sports Illustrated magazine's 1963 " Sportsman of the Year " award.

He was diagnosed with leukemia shortly after winning the award and died in 1963.

The award has been presented annually since 1963.

In 1963 he won a Golden Globe award for Best TV Star-Male

He had been selected for the award by President John F. Kennedy, but the ceremony had been delayed, and was presented with the award after Kennedy's assassination in November 1963.