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...Napoleon wanted a small elite group, but he was flooded with demands for the decoration -as were subsequent leaders of France." As a result, the number of those entitled to wear the Legion's red ribbon soared from...
...ever enforced. One reason may be that having a medal does not involve much in the way of an earthly reward; the holder of the lowest grade of the Legion of Honor, for example, gets the princely stipend of $5 a year. On the other hand, the red ribbon sometimes impresses policemen and plumbers, and according to one recipient, "it helps to get better service in restaurants...
...series of events chronologically, in the tradition of the storyteller, adding a dimension of distance and wonder to the small occurrences of a routine and mechanized world. In some of these stories he succeeds admirably, notably in "Willis Avenue," the memory of an unfulfilled love in a typewriter-ribbon factory in the Bronx. Unfortunately for Helprin, however, dialogue provides one of the best means of allowing characters to take their own definite shapes, and he is forced to make up for the lack by directly describing the thoughts and feelings of the people he creates. The result is that...
...next step was to buy a sheaf of green construction paper and some red typewriter ribbon. I took a piece of paper out for each of my friends and typed a long, single-spaced dissertation on the history of the winter solstice celebration, also known as Christmas. Then I folded the construction paper carefully in half and stenciled winter solstice trees on all the covers. The whole operation took until about three in the morning...
Reassured, Betty Ford is more outgoing than ever. One recent morning, she arrived at St. John's Church, where the Fords often worship, for a ribbon-cutting ceremony opening a Christmas bazaar. When a clown on hand for the occasion broke into a dance, Mrs. Ford, a former student of Martha Graham, spontaneously joined in. A few days later she taped a cameo appearance for a forthcoming Mary Tyler Moore show. The same day she helped launch a Braniff airplane painted with a Bicentennial design by Alexander Calder. At home, she brings in Liberty's puppies for guests...