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The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in New York presented three of its highest honors to violinist Isaac Stern, painter Isabel Bishop and writer Jacques Barzun. Barzun received the Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Bishop the Gold Medal for Painting. Stern received the Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts for his attempts to save and restore Carnegie Hall. More than 30 other awards and prizes were conferred, including the Arnold W. Brunner Prize in Architecture, which was won by James Ingo Freed.