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Yovicsin named ball-handling, field generalship, quickness more than speed, and throwing skill as prime attributes of his quarterback, with ball carrying secondary. "We like to throw the ball," he explained...
Postwar Politics: Elected mayor of Arras and Deputy for Department Pas-de-Calais in 1945; still holds both jobs. Challenged Socialist Party leadership because it had "lost touch with militants"; succeeded to secretary-generalship, won complete control in 1946; served as minister without portfolio under Premier Leéon Blum. As a Socialist, stoutly opposes Communists ("They are not left but East...
Harrington, a quick, accurate set shooter, who is not afraid to shoot personally, revived the laggard Crimson attack in the first half with 12 points, eight shots of 20 feet or more, in the second quarter. He also showed fine court generalship, and finished with 15 points...
Randolph Churchill, who can be counted upon to put most snidely what others may be thinking, compared Eden's generalship with Hitler's conduct in leading his troops to Stalingrad and leaving them there, except that "Hitler, with all his faults, did not winter in Jamaica." The Conservative Daily Telegraph reported Eden in Jamaica keeping in "fitful touch with London." which was not "fair to his colleagues in London-or, indeed, to the country." In the bars of Fleet Street and the clubs of St. James's, Eden's future and a possible realignment of Tory...
...that the rival Second Army was "annihilated" (except George Patton, who turned up with a force of Second Army tanks in Eisenhower's rear). This stunning victory opened the eyes of Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall, and soon Ike began moving surefootedly upward through the stars of generalship. Right after Pearl Harbor, Marshall made him assistant chief of war plans, then chief, then ordered Ike to draw up an organization plan for the European Theater. So well was it drawn that, on Marshall's urging, Franklin Roosevelt reached far down through the ranks to appoint...