Word: medals
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...Irene Kelly, Pittsburgh widow, has a son in Italy: Technical Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, 23, the "one-man blitz" who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for mowing down some 40 Nazis. In Pittsburgh, Mrs. Kelly has two sons-Howard, 16, Danny, 11. Last week Son Howard sharpened a pencil, and got in touch with Washington...
...benefit of other civilians, I forward a message to us all from a letter written by an A.A.F. captain now flying a Liberator in the Central Pacific; he wears the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster...
With this citation the Congressional Medal of Honor went posthumously last week to Private Nicholas Minue, 44-year-old World War I veteran who was killed last year in Tunisia - but only after he had bayoneted ten German machine gunners, destroyed their two guns...
Nowadays, U.S. troops in England even kid one another about their medals. (A standing wisecrack: "He got that medal for preventing rape; he changed his mind.") But the U.S. is not the only reputable army with a lot on its chest. Russian officials joyfully announced last week that over 2,000,000 decorations had been bestowed on Soviet heroes. The Rus-sian Army has seen a lot more fighting than the U.S. Army, but in proportion to estimated size, this is at least eight times as much kudos as the U.S. Army has distributed...
...graces of the art of design were fittingly embodied last week when Miss Elena Davila (see cut) won Columbia University's twelfth annual medal for social architecture. The competition subject was a recreation-area shelter. Born in Puerto Rico, Miss Davila studied at Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill Academy, is an equestrian and stamp collector, a skillful photographer, an enthusiastic dancer in the Spanish manner. Her father, an alumnus of M.I.T., is Lieut. Commander Jorge V. Davila, U.S.N.R., now on duty in Puerto Rico...