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...medal-wearing occasions, new U.S. Ambassador to Mexico William O'Dwyer (wartime brigadier general) could sport a new ribbon. The Army had given him the Legion of Merit...
...Happiest Days of Your Life (London Films) is a nimble farce with a sound underpinning of character and comment. Though a few cuts below such blue-ribbon British comedies as Tight Little Island and Passport to Pimlico, it offers the rare inducement of watching two of Britain's best comics-Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford-as they steal scenes from each other...
...faces of male passers-by as they watched a pretty model adjust her garter-and ran the pictures in the Journal. In Atlanta's fancy cat show, Keasler entered an alley cat, made such a scene that a special class was created, and he won a blue ribbon for having the only entry...
...Plane. SAC's complicated and outsize bombers demand ice-cold thinking, endurance and guts from the men who fly them. The Consolidated Vultee B-36, a cigar-shaped aerial monster, is LeMay's blue-ribbon flying warship. It costs $4,700,000 before it ever gets off the ground (a small submarine costs $6,000,000). The tanks in its 230-ft. wing can swallow 2½ tank-car loads of gasoline, enough to feed its six pusher engines for nearly two days. It can cruise over the enemy out of sight of earth-and, the Air Force...
...outside, the Liberté looked much the same as the Europa did in 1930, when she held the blue ribbon for the fastest (4 days 17 hrs. 6 min.) east-west transatlantic crossing. The climax to her German career came in 1939, when she slipped out of New York on Aug. 22, skipped her Channel stops, and scurried into Bremerhaven three days before war began. There Allied troops found her, in May 1945, filthy from neglect but undamaged by bombing. Used briefly as a U.S. Navy transport, she was returned to the Inter-Allied Reparation Agency because U.S. experts thought...