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...trying to bull its way through trouble, the Second had violated another Pattonism. Meeting abler anti-tank tactics from the 27th and 30th than it had expected, it had lost many tanks. D.S.C.Man Patton had warned them of the danger of 75s along the roadside. Said he (amended version): "Never engage in a scenting match with a skunk." The Second, relying on its own strength, had failed to use its infantry, and the failure had been expensive. It had also failed to coordinate its work with its allied Fifth Division, and been cited by the umpires for the failure...
Last week, after ten days of set exercises in the 600-mile-square area south of Nashville, they met in mimic battle-the Fifth (Regular) and 27th (New York National Guard) Divisions on one side, the 30th Division (Tennessee, Georgia, North and South Carolina) and the 153rd Infantry Regiment (Arkansas) on the other...
Anne Bullitt, motherless little rich girl who presided as first lady at the gloomy U.S. Embassy in Moscow back in 1934, was introduced to grown-up Washington society last week, will make her formal debut at Philadelphia on the 27th. Heiress to the Philadelphia Bullitt fortune, sophisticated beyond her years from Embassy life with father in Moscow and Paris, "finished" at Foxcroft, she is a dark-haired beauty in her own right...
...they worked in the camps themselves. Now the Army's Morale Division, aided by the chaplains, will manage matters inside the posts. But cooperating closely in off-the-reservation work are the Government's National Defense Council, headed by Episcopal Layman Charles Phelps Taft (son of the 27th President), and the inter-faith United Services Organizations for National Defense (U.S.O.), which will combine the war service work of the Y.M.C.A., Y.W.C.A., National Catholic Community Service, Jewish Welfare Board, National Travelers Aid Association, Salvation Army...
...petition drive is part of a national campaigns to solidity peace sentiment between now and the President's "momentous" pronouncement on May 27th, Student Union leaders feel that the President's last speech was postponed because of the reluctance of the people to support the administration on convoys...