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...near enough to the scene of action to get himself wounded. After the War, Photographer Dickson got himself demobilized in France so he could go to Abyssinia and take pictures of lions. He also photographed war scenes among the Riffs. Then he drifted back to Paris. Armed with the ribbon of the Legion of Honor and an expansive manner, he set himself up in the automobile bumper business which he still runs as a sideline. His next venture was putting prizes-cheap necklaces and silk stockings-in boxes of candy sold in Paris theatres. When the Government stopped this...
Slowly the giant overhead lights of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden dimmed. Across a bright lattice of wavering spotlights glided a tiny girl in an abbreviated costume of red & gold, a ribbon fluttering saucily in her hair. In the centre of the ice, her sturdy little legs suddenly twinkled into the first steps of a mazurka. Then she swung into a Lutz jump, a Jackson-Haynes spin, glided backward the length of the rink in a fadeaway stop. To lay observers, this brief turn was not remarkable. For experts it was an exercise in sheer genius, the climax...
...College seal of Locke's diploma, now lost, was affixed to a blue ribbon, rather than to the red one of today. Blue and yellow appear to have been the usual color of these bands until the middle of the nineteenth century, when red became the College color as a result of President Eliot's gift of Crimson handkerchiefs to the crew before a Yale race...
...morning course where birds were more plentiful, scoring six finds to four by his brace mate, Air Circus. There was pathos in the next heat. Out came Oil Tycoon Jacob France's big pointer, Kremlin, winner of many a lesser stake, to try once more for the blue ribbon of bird dogdom. But his seven years hung heavy upon him. When famed Handler Chesley Harris released him at the starting signal, Kremlin just stood there. Then he tried to start, but he had only three legs. A tendon had tied up. He hobbled out 75 yd. from the gallery...
...distinguished-looking old gentleman who cuts off French heads with his efficient and well-kept pair of guillotines-a light, folding model for the provinces and for Paris a heavy, ancestral antique. This official, famed Anatole ("Papa") Deibler, has been waiting impatiently for his Legion of Honor ribbon. After receiving it he will retire and leave to his son-in-law the family business of executing criminals. Last week enraged "Papa" Deibler let it be known that he has secured the services of a Deputy who will rise in the Chamber and demand of Minister of Justice Yvon Delbos...