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...city Medal of Valor, said to him: "We are familiar with the editorial 'we,' but not until your arrival in Paris did we learn of the aeronautical 'we'." At Central Park the struggling grasses were browbeaten while 250,000 humans watched Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith pin upon Colonel Lindbergh the state Medal of Honor...
Conductor. But it is John Joseph Kennedy who is to the New York Central what the commanders of flagships are to steamer lines. Of his apprenticeship as waterboy and brakeman he bears no mark. In the days of pin coupling, brakemen were seldom "set up" as conductors before they had managed to lose a finger or two. Conductor Kennedy's hands and memories are as smooth as a college professor's. The shield-shape perforation which he carefully makes in your ticket, in your presence', is done with the punch he used on his first passenger trip...
...sample of a small, sharp-pointed staple which we tried for several days to duplicate, only to find that it was no longer on the market. Finally we called him up to ask what it was used for, so that we could perhaps provide a substitute. "I want to pin a tag on a cat's ear" was the answer. Whereupon we bought him a ten-cent box of clothes-pricing tags which proved satisfactory...
...consistent popping of the rifles. Scouts, grenade dischargers, and wire cutters mingled in the heat of the fray, and many a sailor showed the potential ability of a movie actor by "biting the dust" with a consumate reality of the battle scenes in "What Price Glory." Little pin points of fire from blank shells glowed through the murkiness of the medical men ran about trantically with empty stretchers. All the ghastliness of bloody battle was spewed out on the peaceful field...
...Manhattan, one Edward L. Stevens, of Tulsa, Okla., strolled peacefully along Ninth Avenue. Came hard Martin Maroney, tough Thomas McLaughlin, lethal Mike Santo, gangsters all, struck down Mr. Stevens, took from him a watch, a diamond pin...