Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody was lovelier than blonde, Garboesque Mme. Hägglöf, graceful bride of the Swedish Charge. Nobody was fancier than the Norwegian Ambassador wearing every shape, cast, color and size of medal, decoration and ribbon. The new Ethiopian Minister, small and black, shone in his gold-braided costume. British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr walked like a new Privy Councilor, impeccable in tails. U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman looked like a nervous young curate at an Episcopal convention-out of place in his too long, double-breasted business suit which he had tried to formalize with a stiff collar...
Some 450 San Antonians have been decorated. Among them are two who wear the Congressional Medal of Honor's white-starred blue ribbon: Colonel Neel Kearby, who shot down five Jap planes in an air battle near Wewak, New Guinea; Lieut. Colonel Charles W. Davis, who led an infantry assault on Guadalcanal...
...Lionel Cohen was qualified as an observer with the R.A.F.V.R., was assigned as Air Liaison Officer with the Navy. Now 68, Wing Commander Cohen is the R.A.F.'s oldest flying officer. He has made 45 operational flights, totaling 500 air hours. Last week he got another ribbon, added another item to his record: he is the oldest recipient of the coveted, candy-striped Distinguished Flying Cross...
Your article on "Tinsel & Ribbon" (TIME, Jan. 24) struck upon a sore subject to many servicemen. The following anecdote may be cited...
Captain Hubler's article, "Winning Medals and Alienating People," kicks off sharply: "To talk about tinsel and ribbon when death is the bitter fashion appears a travesty. It is necessary for two reasons. First, the men concerned with the giving and taking of honors-especially the latter-want to know about it. Second, the whole system of honoring American heroes is falling into disrepute...