Word: eto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have read Lucky Forward and find that it is the most authentic work yet done on Patton, the Third Army or the ETO high command. However, since I was [with] General Patton from the time of the landings in North Africa until war's end in the Reich, perhaps I did not view his activities from the vantage point enjoyed by TIME'S book editor nested away in New York City...
...offered Dr. Hawley an unattractive job. Veterans' medicine, under fire from Congress and the press, was a mess of red tape, indifference, discouraged patients, scarce equipment, underpaid doctors. Major General Hawley, third in a line of Indiana family doctors, had been chief surgeon of the ETO, and he felt "called." He wanted not only to clean up V.A., but to give veterans the best medicine the U.S. could offer...
Neither incompetent nor careless, and by no means stupid, Robert Sharon Allen of Pearson & Allen's Washington Merry-Go-Round was Patton's G-2 operations executive (i.e., military intelligence officer) in the ETO campaigns. He came home minus his right arm, sporting a rash of ribbons and a Patton commendation for "superior performance." No shrinking violet, Allen has let his publisher spread the commendation on the jacket of Lucky Forward, his raucous, truculent history of Patton's Third Army. In a not very roundabout way, the author is made to shine in the reflection of Patton...
Lucky Forward is peppered with similar charges, none of them convincingly sustained. Says Allen: "Patton was the sparkplug and dynamo of the war in the ETO. The full record of his genius and far-flung impact on operations still is entombed behind an official wall of jealous silence and so-called 'classified documents...
Woven into the plot are 17 songs by Courtney Crandall '46 and John Knowles '47, with all lyrics contributed by student director William Scudder '48. The Pudding chorus is under the direction of former ETO theater director Charles Conkling. Morthner Marshall, another service show veteran, directs the script and Donald Finlayson and Miss Pat Havens are in charge of scenery and costuming, respectively...