Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eisenhower. Accordingly, the ceremony in the Pentagon was brief. President Truman drove over from the White House. In Army Secretary Royall's unpretentious office Ike stepped forward, administered the oath of office to his friend & successor, homely, homespun General Omar Bradley. Then the President pinned a Distinguished Service Medal (his third) on Ike's chest. "I'm highly honored," said Ike. "It gives me more pleasure than you," replied Truman...
Pinnacle. In New London, Conn., Navy Commander Eugene B. Fluckey (Congressional Medal of Honor, Navy Cross with three gold stars, two unit citations) earned the necessary merit badges, at 34, to become an Eagle Scout...
...high. Like the sky") was already well-known on Paris concert stages. The Germans never knew that many nights, after her practicing, Nicole mounted her bicycle to run messages for the underground (she is one of only twelve civilians to receive the Commandos d'Afrique medal). Once she was asked to give a concert with the Berlin Philharmonic. To avoid playing for the Germans, she wrapped the fingers of her right hand in a bandage, pretending that she had just had an accident and kept them wrapped up for weeks. Once two Gestapo agents invaded her house to look...
Astronomer-Ballistician Hubble came back from his second war with the Medal of Merit, and settled down. With his wife, the former Grace Burke, he lives in a charming mission-style house in San Marino, near Pasadena, on the edge of a steep geological fault which he thinks may be incubating an earthquake...
...often with chafed knees and dried tearstains on her cheeks. At eight, as the Spirit of the New Year in the Minto Follies, the Ottawa Journal called her "the darling of the show." At ten she became the youngest Canadian girl ever to win the gold medal,* and met Sonja Henie, who took Barbara out to tea and gave her an autographed picture of herself in a gold frame...