Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hilary Smart, ocC, the only Harvard man to win a gold medal at the Olympic games, described his experiences in European regattas last summer...
...drinking ("I just never got started") freshman has been using up energy on the ice for only seven years. He started figure skating at the age of 12 against his father's wishes. "Dad wanted me to play hockey." Button explains, "but after I won my first medal, you couldn't tear him away from figure skating...
...them in Hennessy's automobile at the bottom of the Lake. Washington Ship Canal. One day last week, Gladys Hennessy, the undertaker's widow, was driving along an icy road with a woman friend and her five-year-old son Patrick (who was wearing a Saint Christopher medal taken from his father's body). The automobile skidded and plunged into the Wenatchee River. All inside were drowned...
...cycled 12½ miles in 57 minutes, ran 215 yards in 43 seconds, walked five miles in 74 minutes. Then she heaved a javelin 59 feet. She got her medal. She also drew a frown from her children who didn't approve of such behavior in a woman of 72. "It's not grandmotherly," they said...
Last week the Army made its last Medal of Honor awards for World War II. The recipients were Staff Sergeant John W. Minick, of Carnegie, Pa., who crawled through a Hurtgen Forest minefield', tackled an entire German company and killed 20 before he fell; and Staff Sergeant Gus Kefurt, of Greenville, Pa., who led his platoon in a hand-to-hand encounter in France, killed 25 Germans before he was cut down by enemy fire. Minick's and Kefurt's Medals of Honor were presented to their widows...