Word: herman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pentagon Building in Washington sang: "Pistol Packing Patton Laid that Private Down." But PM's honest editor John P. Lewis admitted that his mail was running almost 5-to-1 against the paper's high-blood-pressure cry for a court-martial. And from Mishawaka, Ind., Casketmaker Herman F. Kuhl, father of one of Patton's slapped soldiers, wrote his Congressman, forgiving the slap and promoting the slapper's pro motion. The prevailing Congressional opinon was that Patton, exactly like any other soldier, should stay where his superiors considered him most effective...
...BONES -Herman Peterson -Duell, Sloan and Pearce ($2). How a family skeleton that strayed from its closet to the bottom of an abandoned standpipe endangered the lives of several likable people and gave a rural doctor his chance to play sleuth. Well written, mystifying, capably plotted...
Divorced. Herman Frederick Willkie, 53, Wendell Willkie's elder brother, Distillers Corp.-Seagrams Ltd. vice president; by Gerri Baker Willkie, 41; after five years; in Covington...
After two years of hurling such dusters at his St. Louis radio audience of 1,000,000, Jerome Herman Dean has explained all- in The Dizzy Dean Dictionary and What's What in Baseball. His sponsor, St. Louis' Falstaff Brewery, planted the idea; an adman wrote the book. Despite this hybridism, the result is pure Dean, so pure that Diz threatens to "write another soon." Meanwhile Opus No. 1 has gone through 25,000 copies in ten days...
Correspondent Johnston has especially kind words for a German-born American and a native Papuan. The American, Herman Bottcher, led twelve volunteers into the Japanese positions, built fortifications on the beach. Constantly under fire, Bottcher provided a diversion that resulted in Allied victory. "By a conservative count . . . Bottcher and his twelve men . . . killed more than 120 Japs." The Papuan, Katue, conducted a one-man guerrilla war against the Japanese. In the jungles he killed innumerable Japanese and scared many New Guinea natives who had gone over to the Japanese back to the Allied side. After 73 days of individual exploits...