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...Americans have also romanticized their military qualities. The Union, says Brogan, has been admirably preserved from the time of the Indian Wars to World War II by "patience, prudence, the massing of superior forces." A soldier like General Custer is simply a "horrible example, to be digested and then forgotten...
Died. Miguel Antonio Otero, 84, governor of the territory of New Mexico from 1897 to 1906, buffalo-hunting companion of "Wild Bill" Hickok, Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, Kit Carson and General Custer; in Santa Fe, N.Mex...
General Sanders. At 28, Richard C. Sanders is the youngest general officer in the U.S. Army and probably the youngest since Custer, who got his star at 24. World War I was already well under way when Sanders was born (in Salt Lake City), and less than two months before Pearl Harbor he was still a second lieutenant. These facts are all the more remarkable because he is not a West Pointer. But in the University of Utah's R.O.T.C. he was an "A" student in military science and tactics. The only civilian job he ever had was running...
...NOTLEDGE Custer, Mont...
...service stars, the National 197. There had been only one death. Rookie Eugene Stack, slated for a tryout with Chicago's White Sox, was the first major leaguer drafted-Jan. 7, 1941. Two years ago he died of a heart attack after pitching a game for Fort Custer, Mich...