Word: tunic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Leonardo was a youth of great personal charm and extraordinary physical beauty which he paraded without reserve in the streets of Florence. Contemporaries picture him wearing a curly blond beard and walking in a short pink tunic while everyone else wore cloaks. He was proud to the point of arrogance, fastidious to the point of inhumanity. Evidence, including anonymous accusations, strongly suggests that Leonardo was a homosexual. Wrote the late Sigmund Freud in his Leonardo da Vinci: "In a period where there was a constant struggle between riotous licentiousness and gloomy asceticism, Leonardo presented an example of cool sexual rejection...
Last fortnight Major Ted Cragg, of Greenwich, stepped out in front of the Fifth Fighter Command. Nine times his name was called, medals, stars or Oak Leaf Clusters were pinned to his tunic for each citation. They had been won over a long period, and they made him (with Major Thomas Lynch) the most decorated fighter pilot in the Southwest Pacific...
...destroy the Tussaud museum on Marylebone Road. In the ruinous days of September 1940, a bomb blasted two of the museum's rooms into reportedly picturesque and possibly symbolic confusion: Hitler lurched on his beam-ends, his head chipped to its core. Göring's resplendent tunic was ripped to shreds and his countless medals strewn on the floor. Goebbels lay on his back, staring at nothing. But firm and unshaken, the blue eyes of Winston Churchill gazed blinkless at the scene...
Back at their base, the Lightnings were met by Lieut. General Carl Spaatz, Northwest African Air Force chief. Cried he: "Where's MacNicol? I want to give him the D.F.C." On the disheveled tunic of the raid commander, Lieut. Colonel George M. MacNicol, the general pinned a Distinguished Flying Cross...