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Your article on "Tinsel & Ribbon" (TIME, Jan. 24) struck upon a sore subject to many servicemen. The following anecdote may be cited...
Napoleon's observation that a soldier will walk through hell to get a ribbon for his tunic did not mean that a given amount of hell invariably produced a given ribbon. To fighting men before and since, the inequities of medal awards have always been a sore subject. The current issue of the official Marine Corps Gazette gives Marine Captain Richard G. Hubler a chance to dig the old subject up again for World...
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...
...Melpomene and Thalia have been surpassed," cried the Romantics when Dumas' play Henri III was first presented. Pandemonium broke loose. The audience "stood up, as if seized with madness." "The crown is mine," cried Dumas, and bought himself chromatic waistcoats and a pince-nez dangling from a black ribbon...
Nancy Ann Abbott leaves statistics to her business manager and partner, A. L. Rowland. She is usually incredulous when she hears her doll production translated into 180,000 yards of cloth, 3,000 gallons of paint, 1,500,000 yards of baby ribbon a year. But both partners clam up when they are asked about profits. All Partner Rowland will say about the net income on 1943's $1,000,000 gross is: "We ain't complainin...