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Ribbons. His record, if not his arguments, certainly entitled him to a hearing. Appearing last week before the House Armed Services Committee, he was a distinguished grey figure in service blue. His chest was asplash with ribbons. In World War I, he had gone to France with the Sixth Marines and stuck with them through some of the bloodiest fighting of the war-Verdun, Belleau Wood, St. Mihiel, the Meuse-Argonne. He earned six battle clasps for his Victory Medal, the Army's Distinguished Service Cross, three Purple Hearts, five Silver Stars. He had also won the Congressional Medal...
...Brownie raced away again. After that he performed with brilliance, steadiness and wisdom. Spunky Pete disgraced himself by racing clear out of view and staying lost for 32 minutes, but Brownie went on hunting faultlessly and tirelessly hour after hour. When he was finally called in, tongue lolling, chest heaving, at the end of his trial, Judge Nash Buckingham of Memphis said: "I haven't seen but one or two better heats than that in 17 years...
...Closing Chest. First published between 1923 and 1936, the stories show variations in skill and manner but they are ruthlessly fixed in mood and point. In The Riddle, one of the earliest, the lid of an old lady's silk-lined chest is eagerly opened by her seven grandchildren in succession-and is silently, fatally closed by an unknown hand, with the children inside. In Strangers and Pilgrims, one of the 76-year-old master's latest, a stranger dressed all in black visits an old churchyard and examines the inscriptions on the tombstones...
Whenever he has a birthday, Samuel Fels likes to tell about an incident that happened when he was 30. He had applied for insurance, but the insurance doctor, after thumping his skinny chest, decided that tiny (4 ft. 11 in.) Soapmaker Fels was a poor risk...
...fellows I've had contact with. I know I've tried, and I'm sorry." Said a young man with a Brooklyn accent: "I want to apologize for making the faculty the butt of my corny jokes ... I want to get something else off my chest: giving thanks for food, then complaining about...