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Niles chubb '43 of Lowell House and San Antonio, Texas, will be awarded the U. S. Field Artillery Medal, given annually "to the student who best exemplifies, in outstanding soldiery character, the high standards of the Army," this afternoon. At the same time, the Department of Military Science announced 42 other prizes to be presented to top-ranking men in the ROTC unit today...
...conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in aerial combat" the President of the U.S. gave him his country's highest military decoration, the Congressional Medal of Honor; the Secretary of the Navy promoted him from lieutenant to lieutenant commander; his home town (St. Louis) gave him the wildest public ovation since Hero Lindbergh's return there 15 years ago. Thus 28-year-old Naval Aviator Edward H. O'Hare, who shot down five Jap bombers in the Pacific, damaged a sixth, in one flight from a U.S. aircraft carrier, had the week of his life...
Every man on the squad had fairly easy sailing, and some pretty medal scores were turned in. Paul Macgowan shot a 73 and Don Davis came up with a 74. Paul Coste was the only loser all day for the Peddie forces, and his defeat prevented a '45 sweep...
...important advance. He did this by dishing out a series of pretentious pictures which ran an enticing gamut from sex (Male and Female) and high living (Affairs of Anatol) to orgiastic uplift (The Ten Commandments). They earned him the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and a gold medal from the bathtub industry (for making cinemagoers bathroom-conscious...
Other Crimson representatives didn't fare so well. In number three, Henry Shepley dropped a 2 and 1 match to Jack Mendes, and number four man Ollie Ames was raked 5 and 4 by Larry Murphy, New England Intercollegiate champion. Murphy's medal score, 74, was the best...