Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Santiago, Chile, a deaf woman in the jampacked audience at the Teatro Central had trouble following the ceremony on the stage. She turned to her husband, asked why the American nurse was getting a medal: "Because she had 8,000 babies," he answered. "Impossible!" gasped his wife...
...brutal murders by Chicago's dailies (TIME, July 29). Last week, when he made it official, they lavished page after page on his confession and his "reenactment" of his crimes. Lest anybody forget who had scooped whom, the Tribune (which gave the confession story 38 columns) pinned a medal on its chest...
...Immigration Service arrested him for illegal entry, confined him for a spell to Ellis Island. A year later he was paroled, promptly inducted into the Army. In 1944-45 he served overseas, part of the time with the 24th Infantry Division. Now he is back, with a Bronze Star medal and a book...
...York City Republicans got a boom going for a somebody: Major General William J. Donovan. Manhattan Lawyer Donovan (onetime Assistant U.S. Attorney General) had unusual assets for vote appeal: a nickname ("Wild Bill," from his football days at Columbia University) ; fame as a World War I hero (the Congressional Medal of Honor) and distinction in World War II as head of the cloak-and-dagger Office of Strategic Services...
...biggest discovery, for which he received a medal in 1939 from the American College of Physicians: nicotinic acid (part of B-2 vitamin) cures pellagra, a common affliction among poor Southerners who live on fatback and corn pone...