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...period seldom let art stand in the way of such a grand theme, and the resulting decorations reminded a modern critic of illustrations from an old edition of Bulfinch's Mythology. With all the subtle reserve of Victorian design, one medallion contains a Roman corselet, a sword and a helmet, shields, sprays of laurel leaves, Roman faces, spear heads, part of a fortress, and, topping all, an American eagle bearing a thunderbolt...
Britain's Princess Margaret laid aside her mink coat, put on a white overall and helmet, descended a quarter-mile into a coal mine near Nottingham. Chipping off a lump of coal with a pickax, she said: "I'll have to get this mounted!" When a cutting machine wafted some coal dust into her mouth, the miners beamed as the princess cried, "It tastes delicious...
...Commander D. J. Giorgio and Lieut. J. G. Morrow, anesthesiologists at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, have worked out a stratagem for soothing young surgical patients. Their device: a plastic space-chief helmet with a tube to admit oxygen and cyclopropane gas. After the space chief fogs off, he gets ether like ordinary mortals...
...same as the other." Alternating milk with champagne, he lived to be 96-the record for Vice Presidents. ¶Thomas R. Marshall (1913-21) had the humility the vice presidency requires. He was not too dignified to pose on the Capitol steps wearing a World War I German helmet. After Woodrow Wilson had a stroke with 17 months of his term left, Marshall refused to consider taking over the presidency. Bored by a pompous Senate speech about what the nation needed, Marshall turned to a clerk, muttered: "What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar." Marshall is remembered...
...sort of a sissy, I guess. But my pa wouldn't break up a fight if he saw me in it. He wanted me to learn." Johnny learned, and football taught him. When Johnny was in the sixth grade, his father gave him a helmet, and. like other millions of American youngsters, Johnny soon found himself playing football and filling out. A good deal of personal determination entered into it. His mother remembers that Johnny went on a cod-liver-oil binge, once drank 17 pints of it in a single week. "Do you know who his idol...