Battle of the Bulge
Sports
NCAA Football: Army Record: 9-0-0
Heisman Trophy: Leslie Horvath, ohio St., TB-Q points: 412
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens vs. Chicago Blackhawks Series: 4-0
World Series: St. Louis Cardinals vs. St. Louis Browns Series: 4-2
Popular Movies
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3. Anchors Aweigh
4. And Now Tomorrow
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6. Christmas in Connecticut
7. Diamond Horseshoe 8. Frenchman's Creek 9. God Is My Co-Pilot 10. Here Comes The Waves
Academy Awards
Best Picture: "Going My Way"
Best Director: Leo McCarey ... "Going My Way"
Best Actor: Bing Crosby ... "Going My Way"
Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman ... "Gaslight"
Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
HAHN, OTTO, Germany, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut, (now Max-Planck Institut) fŸr Chemie, Berlin-Dahlem, b. 1879, d. 1968: "for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei"
Literature
JENSEN, JOHANNES VILHELM, Denmark, b. 1873, d. 1950: "for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style"
Peace
COMITƒ INTERNATIONAL DE LA CROIX-ROUGE (INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS)
Physiology or Medicine
The prize was awarded jointly to: ERLANGER, JOSEPH, U.S.A., Washington University, St. Louis, MO, b. 1874, d. 1965; and GASSER, HERBERT SPENCER, U.S.A., Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, NY, b. 1888, d. 1963: "for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres"
Physics
RABI, ISIDOR ISAAC, U.S.A., Columbia University, New York, NY, b. 1898, (in Rymanow, then Austria-Hungary) d. 1988: "for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei"
Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: Martin Flavin ... "Journey in the Dark"
History: Merle Curti ... "The Growth of American Thought"
International Reporting: Daniel DeLuce ... "Associated Press"
National Reporting: Dewy L. Fleming ... "Baltimore Sun"
Public Service: "Omaha (NE) World Herald"
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