Word: medals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tested his mettle playing guard, tackle and end for Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa. That was in the rah-rah '20s when Susquehanna lost the big ones by scores of 91-0, 87-6, 61-7. In December, Blough will receive the National Football Foundation's 1963 gold-medal award for "outstanding contributions to the game." How come? Well, deadpans the foundation, which in previous years has honored such All-American names as Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy, "Blough may not have been one of football's greatest players, but he was certainly...
...House flower garden, crowded with a giggle of presidential secretaries, a gaggle of Congressmen, Bob Hope as the guest of honor, and John Kennedy as his admiring straight man. What was Hope doing there? He had come, along with his wife, to receive from President Kennedy a congressional gold medal for having entertained U.S. troops all over the world since 1941. Hope was happy-although there was "one sobering thought. I received this for going outside the country. I think they are trying to tell me something...
...presenting the medal to Hope, the President noted wryly that the comic's congressional commendation was "the only bill we've gotten by lately." That good-humored but less-than-half-joking remark was somehow symbolic of the President's mood of the week-in which he displayed a relaxed, above-the-battle attitude toward all manner of serious issues...
...your great concern, and I know I speak on behalf of all of us in the United States in expressing our pleasure in meeting you and our pleasure in the honor you have done our country." Kennedy also presided over the Rose Garden presentation of a Distinguished Service Medal to recently retired Air Force General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., who led the first B-29 bomber raid on Tokyo during World War II. Just before the affair began, Kennedy spotted a clutch of U.S. Senators in the crowd. He introduced a couple of Democrats by their last names...
...over, and he and the President, who entered the Senate at the same time, chatted amiably, although no one could hear what they said because cameras were clicking loudly enough to supply every paper in the country with a front-page picture. When Rosie O'Donnell got his medal, he broke everyone up: "It was kind of a shock to be told that I had to wear my uniform, because I discarded it about a month and a half ago, and I had to get my ribbons off my pajamas this morning...