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...time in history the Legion of Honor has been awarded to a U. S. member of the theatrical profession. Last week, in a grave oak room whose windows stared out at the Manhattan sky above the traffic of Broadway, Maxine Mongendre, Consul General of France, pinned a bit of ribbon on the breast of Marcus Loew, showman. Mr. Loew, of "Loew, Inc.," became a showman twenty years ago in much the same fashion that he has now become a legionaire-by accident. Even during the solemn ceremony that involved the bit of ribbon he could not appear to be taking...
...assumed the task of pinning safety pins upon stiff cloth. A ribbon was fastened to each safety pin. That made the task harder, but the little man's fingers flew. He pinned, and he pinned, faster, faster. Each pin must lie exactly straight. Each ribbon must hang just so. Faster, faster, FASTER...
...cable, 2,500 letters a minute, is to result from an improvement achieved in the cable itself after long experimenting to gain speed by improving sending and receiving instruments. Around the copper conductor of the 3,800-mile strand is wound a continuous strip of "permalloy" ribbon, an alloy of iron and nickel which conducts current very freely, permitting signals to be sent close together...
...Paderewski told him one afternoon last week, straightened his pillows, helped him into a faded, favorite bathrobe, and opened the door for a delegation of the American Legion, headed by National Commander John R. McQuigg. They had come to pin on him a Distinguished Service Medal suspended by a ribbon from a gold crossbar containing 74 diamonds...
...boomslangs (tree snakes); parrots, love birds, giant ground hornbills, fish eagles, secretary birds (snake-killers), brilliant plaintain-eaters, sun-birds and the paradise whydah (whose body is canary size with nine inches of tail); leopard tortoises, monitor lizards (which ravage crocodile nests, eat the eggs), armor-plated pangolins (scaly, ribbon-tongued ant-eater); pottos (small baboon). . . . "There is almost no limit to what might be found," but quality, not quantity, would be the collectors' object...