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Died. Lieut. Gen. Manton Sprague Eddy, 69, U.S.A. (ret.), squinty, steadfast foot soldier who won a World War I commission as a second lieutenant despite having been expelled from two high schools, in World War II led the fast-moving 9th Division through North Africa and Sicily, subsequently took the...
After the long, humdrum postwar years of peacetime garrison and army schools. Smith was marked as a comer in 1931 by Lieut. Colonel George Marshall, then assistant commandant of the Army's infantry school at Fort Benning, Ga. A decade later, Beedle Smith was at Marshall's side...
Across the U.S. this summer, thousands of National Guardsmen will trudge reluctantly off for two weeks of required duty in the dust of Massachusetts' Fort Devens, the red clay of Georgia's Fort Benning, and the isolation of dozens of other dreary installations. But for the past six...
Latter-Day Crusader. Ironically, John Patterson built his political career in large part on a reputation for enforcing the law. He was raised in wide-open Phenix City, where the gamblers and the madams catered to soldiers from nearby Fort Benning. Patterson played the slot machines as a kid, drank...
One Pleasant Date. Doctors, confronted with a possible case of mononucleosis, often regard it as a mild infection. It is frequently more than that, says Colonel Robert J. Hoagland, who began studying mono in 1946 when he was medical officer at West Point (where, as at most colleges, the disease...