Word: eto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Basic training, O.C.S., Fort Gelvore, all denoted portions of McCabe's military life. In July, 1944, he was shipped to the ETO where he worked on the Red Ball Express and in an engineering combat battalion with the Ninth Army. V-E day found him on the west bank of the Elbe...
Foaming steins that never empty and plaintive ballads that never end may remind some of the ETO, but they remind thousands more of the four glorious years they drifted through their Alma Mater. It was Smokey Joe's at Pennsylvania and Zinck's at Cornell and at Harvard, well, don't send your boy to Harvard warned the dying mother because there's no place to go. He can sing with the Glee Club and drink wherever the stools are softest; but because of a Cambridge ruling forbidding tavern singing, he can't do both at once...
Sergeant Paul Shimer was killed in action in the ETO. Last May, after his term as mayor was up, Rex Stranger hurried to the U.S. and from his own pocket took $3,000 to establish a trust fund for the education of little Patricia Ann Shimer. Grateful citizens of Chambersburg promptly acknowledged the kindness by raising another $3,000 for food for the rationed children of Southampton; the fruit growers of Franklin County stepped forward with the promise of 600 bushels of apples to add to the gift...
...Knew It is not Patton's diary (kept from July 1942 to Dec. 5, 1945), but a separate book about the ETO campaigns which draws on his diary and what are referred to as "open" letters from the General to Mrs. Patton. An introductory section of letters from North Africa and Sicily will be an eye-opener for many a reader fattened on the journalists' "blood and guts" legend: "Just finished reading the Koran-a good book and interesting." Patton had a keen eye for native customs and methods, wrote knowingly of local architecture, even rated the progress...
...high school, Keiver also played between the guards and ends, plugging the line for Swampscott High for two years. Then a sergeant in the Army, ETO, for two more years, he returned to Cambridge in time for the 1946 football season. House Grid Ratings Won Lost Tied Kirkland 4 0 0 Eliot 3 0 1 Leverett 4 1 0 Dudley 3 3 0 Lowell 2 2 0 Adams 2 4 0 Winthrop 1 4 0 Dunster...