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...States broke the transatlantic speed record previously held by Britain's Queen Mary. Time: 3 days 10 hr. 40 min. Last week a 72-ft. racing craft owned and captained by British Airline and Record Magnate Richard Branson clipped 2 hr. 9 min. off the record, earning the "blue riband" traditionally awarded for top speed, and, presumably, the Hales Trophy glorifying it. But the ocean-liner fraternity cried foul. The curator of the U.S. Merchant Marine Museum, where the trophy is housed, refused to yield it to "a toy boat," as he called Branson's $2.3 / million Virgin Atlantic Challenger...
...being entrusted with both the Duke of Burgundy and the herald Montjoy. But Isabelle Rosier is an unalloyed delight as the 19-year-old princess Katharine, whom Henry woos with inadequate French even while wearing the correct French motto of the Order of the Garter embroidered on his leg riband...
...White House is a small private study a few steps down the hall from his ova! office. Heavy green curtains keep the sunlight out; the phone is muted to reduce noise. Here, under a pair of frontier paintings and a wooden eagle with "E pluribus unum" on a riband streaming from its beak, Johnson studies reports, chats with reporters and staff members. In this womb with no view, he is at ease, cheerful, convinced that the country and the world are in tolerably good condition. His judgment is reinforced by the cables and memos that reach his desk. From...
...carpet for the wan, wiry veteran of the cold war. At the airport Louis Johnson bundled him into a long, black Cadillac and whisked him off to the White House. There, in the sunlight of the presidential rose garden; President Truman pinned a second Oak Leaf Cluster on the riband of General Clay's Distinguished Service Medal and read a praise-packed citation he had written himself. "General Clay," intoned the President, ". . . proved himself not only a soldier in the finest tradition . . . not only an administrator of rare skill, but a statesman of the highest order...
...last-minute directive from the Palace permitted lady guests to deck themselves in the stars and ribands of whatever orders they might possess, and-as if to keep his daughter from being outshone in the glitter-King George invested the royal bride in the broad blue riband and jeweled insignia of the Order of the Garter...