Word: wearers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been the victim of phenomenally bad luck, both in & out of court. Wearer of three rows of ribbons, including a Silver Star for gallantry in the Solomons, a topnotch officer (according to Admiral Raymond A. Spruance), handsome, 47-year-old McVay had had his ship-and perhaps his career-shot out from under him 16 days before...
...stand went balding, bumbling Major General Sherman Miles, wearer of four rows of ribbons, Assistant Chief of Staff for Military Intelligence in the crucial days of 1941. Into the record went a long series of Japanese code messages intercepted before Dec. 7. Most significant: instructions sent by Tokyo on Sept. 24, ordering a spy in Honolulu to divide Pearl Harbor into five sectors, report on the ships at anchor in each...
William Martin ("Bull Bill") Jeffers, Union Pacific office boy turned U.P. president, recently chief bridger of the wartime rubber gap, won the American Irish Historical Society's annual gold medal for outstanding achievement by a wearer of the green...
...talk of coalition could not allay the fears that plague the apprehensive ministers. A Greek in Greece, Colonel Euripides Bakirdzis, wearer of the British D.S.O., and four friends of the Communist-flavored Liberation Front (EAM), had formed a new committee. The committee might well develop into a government, Tito style. It said that it had vacancies for men from Cairo, if they care to come to Greece...
Soon the late great entrepreneur of modern art, Ambroise Vollard, met Vlaminck who was sporting a wooden necktie which could be painted any color to suit the mood of the wearer. Vollard and other dealers enabled him to buy a small farm near Paris. There, between the wars, Vlaminck lived, with his wife and two daughters. Dressed in an English tweed shooting cap, open-neck shirt, breeches and puttees, Vlaminck farmed, painted, wrote poetry, drove his big racing car at high speed across the countryside. Today, though he probably does not know it, there is a rising U.S. market...