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Since the days of ancient Athens, a brave act has deserved a proud and artistic medal-everywhere but in the U.S. Last week when President Kennedy honored the country's first astronaut, all he had to pin on the lapel of Commander Alan Shepard was something that looked as if it might have come out of a Cracker Jack box. The Distinguished Service Medal of the National Aeronautics and Space

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lackluster Medals | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...weed in France. As troubadours sang the glories of smoking to an audience of 800, the organizers of the meeting proudly an nounced the creation of a new chivalrous order of tobacco lovers - "The Compan ions of Jean Nicot," whose members will be entitled to wear a lapel ribbon just like chevaliers of the Legion of Honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Nicot's Weed | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...Board constitutes an absolutely invaluable business experience, you are likely to be dead wrong. As an organization through which well over $100,000 is annually circulated; as an advertising medium that can, if it likes, reject advertisements, and need never to turn to that foul blot on the narrow lapel of a businessman's dignity, the 'suck ad," for sustenance--the Crimson is a king in a rainy country, a monarch inthe city of Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime Comp | 12/6/1960 | See Source »

...Board constitutes an absolutely invaluable business experience, you are likely to be dead wrong. As an organization through which well over $100,000 is annually circulated; as an advertising medium that can, if it likes, reject advertisements, and need never to turn to that foul blot on the narrow lapel of a businessman's dignity, the 'suck ad," for sustenance--the Crimson is a king in a rainy country, a monarch inthe city of Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Competition Opens Tonight | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...magazine has built up an unfortunate reputation for innuendo--which is reinforced in the cover story this week. While the editors pat the New York Times' veteran Arthur Krock atop the head for being "the only ranking political pundit who is not yet wearing his campaign button on his lapel," they use a supposed profile of Sen. Kennedy to slip in several political low blows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bad Timing | 11/5/1960 | See Source »

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