Word: courtney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Take It." In nine months of 1944-45, Walker's XX Corps traveled -some of the time at top speed-from Normandy to Austria. It was Courtney Hodges' First Army that smashed the hole in the German line, at Avranches, and it was the XX Corps and the rest of the Third Army that poured through the gap. The XX Corps' first major job was to clear the north bank of the Loire, but some of Walker's units helped to beat back the enemy counterattack at Mortain and pincer the German Seventh Army at Falaise...
...winners of this year's Horatio Alger awards (presented by the American Schools & Colleges Association): Hotelman Conrad Hilton (who started out with a five-room adobe hacienda); Alexander Harris (who rose from a polisher of cigarette-lighters to president of the Ronson Art Metal Works, Inc.); Thomas E. Courtney (from $6-a-week car washer to president of the $14 million Northern Illinois Corp...