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...dragging a small, hard-faced U.S. sailor out of the Customs House. The sailor, just released from the Navy after a seven-year hitch, had got in a quarrel with customs men, and was knocking them down right & left until the cop subdued him. Editor Brisbane liked the bantam gamecock's looks, got him released, and took him along to meet the auto magnate. On hearing Brisbane's account of the battle, Ford told 24-year-old Harry Bennett: "I can use a young man like you at the Rouge . . . Can you shoot...
...Hammering Henry, a leather-throwing little gamecock, is the only man ever to hold three titles (featherweight, lightweight and welterweight) simultaneously. Today, a fighter automatically vacates one title when he wins another...
...Lawton Collins, back in Washington from Tokyo and Korea, turned in an optimistic report to Secretary Marshall and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Pentagon had its most buoyant week since November. In the field, the 3rd Division's Major General Robert H. Soule displayed a gamecock's confidence: "If they order us, we will go back and take Seoul. We can stop anything they [the Communists] can throw...
Philosophy of a Gamecock. "This," said Walker last week, "is the first time in my 43 years of military experience that I have had to do anything else but attack." It was a permissible exaggeration: the Korean situation was fantastically different from Walker's World War II battle experience, passed entirely as a corps commander under the late George Patton, hard-riding master of the armored attack. Walton Walker's career under Patton did not begin until 48 days after Dday. The Normandy invasion had been preceded by tremendous planning and mountainous buildup; Walker's XX Corps...
Patton once said admiringly to another officer, as Walker was passing by: "There goes a fighting son-of-a-bitch." Patton himself had been described as a "purebred gamecock with brains," and he felt that Walker had satisfactorily absorbed his own battle philosophy. This was expounded in such Pattonisms, usually decked with profanity, as: "Never take counsel of your fears." "Don't worry about your flanks, let the enemy worry about them." "The way to get out of enemy fire is to advance...