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...enlist in 1863, but given even to those who went home. Also canceled were the 29 Medals bestowed in a moment of patriotic inadvertence on Lincoln's funeral escort. The board also rescinded Dr. Walker's award. No civilian has ever received the Medal legally. Charles Augustus Lindbergh rated one because he had belonged to the reserve air force long before his Paris flight.-ED. Sirs...
...transport of enthusiasm at a civilian exploit, Congress in 1927 broke its own rules limiting the award to military men in actual conflict with an enemy and voted the Medal of Honor to Charles Augustus Lindbergh for his flight to Paris...
Exception to the rule of painstaking British portraitists is venerable, bearded, cantankerous Augustus Edwin John, 57. He had always ignored the Academy until it elected him in 1921. Britain's most popular eccentric, who dresses like a Paris Bohemian of 1890 and named one of his daughters Poppet, last week exhibited two bold, admirable portraits...
...AUGUSTUS K. OLIVER...
Unvisited by Capitol sightseers, there lies beneath the marble chambers where Senators & Representatives make the nation's laws, a musty rabbit warren of empty rooms, dark corners, labyrinthine corridors. Into these one cold night last winter crept a hungry, jobless Negro named Fulton Augustus Bond, out on bail after an arrest for vagrancy. A one-time employe in the House restaurant, he found icebox foraging easy, became a trencherman. Capitol police, drawn largely from the job-hungry following of Congressmen, bothered him not at all. Many of them attend Washington's law schools. No detectives, most of them...