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From Los Angeles to Bakersfield, Calif, stretches the Ridge Route, a treacherous ribbon of curves and grades famed both for its scenery and its danger. After 51 motorists had been killed on Ridge Route in 15 months, Chief E. Raymond Cato of the California Highway Patrol decided on an ingenious method to cancel the carnage, put it into effect last week on a 62½-mile section of the Ridge Route from Castaic Junction to Arvin Road...
Actual arrival was on Monday, the Queen Mary docking almost exactly five days after she sailed, but the fact that she did not on her maiden voyage win the Blue Ribbon had been discounted not only days but months and years in advance by Sir Percy Elly Bates, Cunard White Star's long-jawed Flintshire chairman, whose gold spectacles have such long frames that the lenses rest on the very tip of his long nose, and whose jutting jaw makes his friends call him "Chin" Bates. Much like the late great Calvin Coolidge in the dryness of his remarks...
...ribbon for each bough...
Greatest honor the U. S. can bestow is the Congressional Medal of Honor, a five-pointed gold star, swinging from a bar on which is engraved VALOR, below a blue ribbon dotted with 13 white stars. To prod privates, ineligible for other decorations, on to harder fighting, Congress during the second year of the Civil War passed an act providing for 2,000 medals "to such ... as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action and other soldierlike qualities during the present insurrection." The first medals were bestowed by Abraham Lincoln on four Yankee sergeants and two privates...
...When these and some 1,500 other women reached Omaha three weeks ago for the 19th annual tournament of the Women's International Bowling Congress Inc., the oldest competitor, Omaha's own 67-year-old Mrs. Nevada Helen Robertson Tillson, opened play by cutting a crepe-paper ribbon, then whipped the lopsided ball she has used for 33 years down the alley for a strike...