Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desert sands, on the jogging backs of mules. He had talked to kings, prime ministers, generals, admirals. As a lawyer he was well equipped to digest what he heard. As a soldier (he commanded New York's "Fighting 69th" Regiment in World War I, won the Congressional Medal of Honor, the D.S.C. and D.S.M.) he was well equipped to put together what he saw. As a reporter he was a natural. But no newspaper got Wild Bill Donovan's story. Wild Bill would not talk...
Joseph A. Locke '41, of Adams House, received the Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the American Revolution Medal, presented "To the Senior who displayed outstanding interest, ability, and general excellence... on the required Naval ROTC cruise..." This medal was presented by Lieutenant Ross Courier, USNR, who awarded another prize from the same society to John Lowell '42, of Winthrop House, as "the Junior having highest scholastic standing for the two years of his basic course...
...will team up with his brother, Arthur Whittemore, in the men's doubles, and he believes that he has a good chance to win his title as well as the individual medal...
...blond, store-clerkish, 34-year-old Phil Dike, son of a California real-estate promoter, started his art career by imitating his grandmother, who used to paint reproductions of picture postcards. At 21, he won a medal in a local watercolor exhibition, shipped off to Manhattan, where he studied with oldtime U. S. Realist George Luks. After a spell in Paris and Italy, mostly sitting in cafés and talking, Dike returned to Southern California, settled down to teaching...
Economic schoolboys love to argue over who is the world's most powerful industrialist. Last week the argument could almost be regarded as settled. The winner: beer-bellied, red-faced, medal-breasted Hermann Göring...