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Nellie Tayloe Ross, Director of the U.S. Mint, shepherded a collection of U.S. coins and medals which included medallion heads of U.S. Presidents in platinum. Said she, after a good look around: "It's time we got away from the standard designs, and so many eagles on our coins and medals. When I get home I will try to give our young medalists some new ideas...
...mysterious copper medallion bearing an image of the U.S.S. Monitor was turned over for identification yesterday to American Patriots for Raising the Monitor. The coin, dated 1864, is owned by Waldo J. Tyler of Wollaston. Tyler were it on his watch chain as a youth, but does not know its origin or purpose...
...opening of the first college building, they sang an old metrical version of the 65th Psalm ("Thy praise alone, O Lord, doth reign / in Sion Thine own hill . . ."). Then Whitney Griswold, wearing around his neck the "president's collar" of 20 gold & silver links and a pendant medallion with the arms of Elihu Yale, received the charter, the seal, and the keys of the university "to cherish and defend." Finally, in the tradition of his predecessors, he stepped to the lectern to declare his credo...
...Foxes of Harrow, knows just what his customers like and gives it to them in heroic doses: Hero Ross Pary isn't quality in his home town of Natchez, Miss., but he returns there in 1850 with an Oxford education, a face "as clean-cut as a medallion," eyes "somber and brooding" and "plaid trousers, clinging to his well-turned legs." Morgan Brittany, a rich planter's wife, sees him and feels "warm all over-warm and good." Ross makes other women feel good too, and much of Floodtide seems designed to set female readers dreaming of Ross...
...ordering two fried eggs. This week he would have preferred a simple Mass and a breakfast with his staff. But too many people wanted to do him honor: around the necks of 50 million men & women all over the world he has figuratively hung copies of a simple medallion known as the "Miraculous Medal...