Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comrade Molotov, the Mayor of Broadway, was the kind of soldier who could make an officer jump up & down with rage and then pin a medal on him. There was hardly a dogface in the 9th Division who didn't know him or hadn't heard of him. Few knew that he got his mail addressed to Pvt. Karl C. Warner. None knew that his real name was Karl Petusky...
...little Massachusetts town of Longmeadow, two great U.S. soldiers met last week. One was the Army's Chief of Staff Omar Bradley. The other was Corporal Edward George Wilkin, Congressional Medal of Honor winner, who died in action three years ago in Germany. His body had been brought home at last for reburial on Memorial Day. Standing beside the funeral caisson, General Bradley spoke a few quiet words of tribute. Then, to a nation which often before has forgotten its history, he delivered a reminder and warning...
...Manhattan, Inside Dopester Drew Pearson got a silver medal as Father of the Year (for his food-for-Europe campaign) from 1943's Father of the Year, Dwight Eisenhower. Pearson also got a terse tut for slipping into the ceremony an Eisenhower-for-President plug. The general's view: "I deplore it." In Washington, the Un-American Ac tivities Committee handed Congressman J. Parnell Thomas, chairman, a memento of the committee's tenth anniversary: ten red roses...
Historian Charles A. Beard, in a solemn Manhattan ceremony at the National Institute of Arts and Letters, received the Gold Medal in spite of Critic Lewis Mumford, who resigned from the Institute over it. Mumford didn't want to pass out any medals to so partisanly isolationist a historian. Official Medal-Pinner Van Wyck Brooks took pains to point out in his speech that the members were paying homage to "the qualities in his life and his work about which they agree." Besides, he said, Beard had "exposed ... the idea that historians could ever be entirely objective." Historian Beard...
Last week 51 New York schoolboys excitedly prepared for a visit to the capital. They were the winners of an annual reward given to the best school safety patrolmen by the Automobile Club of New York. One, an honor-medal winner, would meet the President. All of them would see the sights, march in a parade...