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...former Governor Charles Edison, 54, son of Inventor Thomas A. Edison and onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy. From the start of his three-year term in 1941, smart, mild-mannered Governor Edison defied Hague more openly than any other governor has dared to. He dented Hague's armor badly, using the old state constitution as his bludgeon. Edison stumped the state, denouncing the inefficient basic law. Before his term was up, he got the people to vote for the submission of a new constitution at the 1944 election...
...Guns. From the sore spot at Arnhem-the most dangerous point for break out into the north German plain-the enemy pulled out more tanks and men, hurled them against Hodges' lines in a new assault. The Americans had seen the reserves and the armor piling up, were braced for the onslaught. When it came this week, the battle became one of the fiercest yet fought in the west...
...first German tanks overran U.S. forward positions. Then a thunderous cannonade from more than 100 big guns massed in the assault area broke the attack, forced the German armor to back...
...First Army was Bradley's pride & joy after D-day (it is still his favorite). But Bradley had a bigger job cut out for him: combined command of the First and of General Patton's armor-heavy Third, whenever the Third could be broken loose out of Normandy. Hodges was on hand to run the First...
...tactical decisions were up to Hodges. When Hodges took over, the First had two complicated plans to work out : 1 ) to slug in and carve a corridor for Patton's tanks to slip through, then hold the German counterattacks and keep the corridor open; 2) using its own armor, to swing a right hook to form the first trap for the German Seventh Army (TIME, Aug. 28). Hodges ran off these plans without raising his voice and with rare recourse to his spare vocabulary of profanity...