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According to the Mission's letterheads (though not in fact), the Mission had a staff of doctors and nurses, listed an honorary committee which included (without their knowledge or consent) Jack Dempsey, Mrs. Oliver Harriman, Ralph W. Budd and other big names. Sometimes, in lighter vein, the missioners got money for their charities by selling punchboards -all of them well rigged against the player...
...Style. Like the British armies, the Second's commander, Lieut. General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey, has learned and grown in World War II. He was a Lieutenant colonel in 1939. In those days, the usual type of top-ranking British general was majestic, rugged, slow-moving and often slow-thinking. The current type is trim, compact, quick-moving, quick witted and willing to learn - like Montgomery, Alexander and Dempsey. Dempsey is the tallest of the three (six feet) but he is slender...
...many other ways, Monty and Dempsey are unlike. Monty is abstemious; Dempsey likes an occasional drink and a frequent smoke. Monty sometimes acts like a prima donna; Dempsey never does...
Monty is the subject of a hundred anecdotes ; nobody ever tells a story about Dempsey. He never tells one himself. He is modest and reticent, and enjoys being inconspicuous...
...north last week General Sir Miles C. Dempsey's British Second Army launched an attack on the German salient between Roermond and Geilenkirchen. This appeared to be no more than a line-straightening operation, to bring the British up to the Roer, in line with the U.S. Ninth and First Army positions. Yet Dempsey's white-painted tanks and white-clad infantry advanced seven miles in three days, swept up a dozen villages, beat down with flamethrowers a counterattack by Nazi paratroops...