When Mr. Beschloss retired from Wittnauer in January 1996 after 25 years, he was given a solid-gold Lifetime Plus watch, guaranteed to be repaired free until the death of a designated heir, which he figured would be his 40-year-old middle son, Adam.
In 2008, the American Academy of Arts and Letters honored him with a gold medal for lifetime achievement.
Among numerous other awards, she received the American Psychological Foundation's gold medal for lifetime achievement in 1984.
But an honorary gold medal for lifetime achievement went to Arthur Mitchell, the artistic director of Dance Theater of Harlem.
Harry was an acclaimed psychologist, winner of the APA's Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement, and a friend and counselor to the world.
He retired in 1987, but his work continued to be exhibited, and he was awarded Austria's gold merit medal lifetime achievement award in 2007.
Mailer received a Gold Medal for lifetime achievement at the National Book Awards in 2005 and used the occasion to lament the decline of the role of the novelist in public life.
He was appointed OBE in 1976, declared TV newscaster of the year three times in the 70s, and in 1996 won a Sony Gold award for lifetime achievement in radio.
In 2002, she was ranked 58th in the Review of General Psychology's list of the 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century, alongside greats such as William James and Donald Hebb, and has been showered with countless honorary degrees, accolades and awards, the latest of which – the American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement – she received earlier this month.
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