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...About the neck of Captain Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, 40, at Boiling Field, D. C. President Hoover hung the pale blue ribbon of the Congressional Medal of Honor, highest military award, acclaimed him "ace of aces of the American forces in the World War." Medalist Rickenbacker's feat: attacking single-handed seven enemy planes, downing two. (His full record: 26 planes shot down...
...breasted, buttoned back to show a close gray vest. His sword . . . was belted over a cavalry sash of golden silk with tasseled ends. His gray horseman's cloak was lined with scarlet. He liked to wear a red rose in his jacket . . . and a love-knot of red ribbon when flowers were out of season. His soft, fawn-colored hat was looped up on the right with a gold star, and adorned with a curling ostrich feather. ... He went conspicuous, all gold and glitter, in the front of great battles and in a hundred little cavalry fights which killed...
...give some 50 recitals. At the end of last season Argentina underwent an appendectomy, a proceeding dangerous for a dancer none too young. Special care was taken not to cut a muscle and she is just as agile as before. Her great pride this year is the little red ribbon which she wears on every coat, every dress. It is the emblem of the Legion of Honor given her the past summer for her distinguished achievement in art plus her generosity to French charities. She might also be proud of her U. S. schedule this season. Few individual artists...
...have his silky mustache trimmed, Joseph Jacques Césaire Marshal Joffre entered his favorite Paris barber shop last week, wearing only one ribbon, that of the Médail le Militaire...
Monday at Reno is known as "graduation day" because on that day divorces are handed. Some women pay an extra $2 to have their decrees certified and tied up with an official ribbon. Only mythical is the tradition that a divorced woman on leaving the Washoe County courthouse gratefully kisses a pillar of its colonnade. Monday night the Reno station is crowded with happy ladies catching the Union Pacific's Limited east to Chicago and a new freedom...