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...from his staff, unceremoniously sacked one senior colonel for failing to act boldly. A stickler for discipline, Taylor once gave a lieutenant a medal for a dangerous patrol and simultaneously fined him $50 for not being clean-shaven. Taylor was harder on himself than anyone, making personal reconnaissances by Jeep, risking injury unnecessarily by sitting stubbornly at a staff table while shells fell in the courtyard outside...
...Germans he has flushed from some bloody pocket of the war. Mauldin's caption, inspired by a news dispatch: "Fresh, spirited American troops, flushed with victory, are bringing in thousands of hungry, ragged, battle-weary prisoners." A cavalryman sadly administers the coup de grâce to a Jeep with a broken axle. Relaxed before battle, Willie angrily casts his eye on his buddy's unlovely countenance: "Why th' hell couldn't you have been born a beautiful woman...
Purple Band-Aid. A three-stripe sergeant, Mauldin soon had the prerogatives of a general. He cruised the front in his own Jeep-a gift from Lieut. General Mark Clark-twice as famous, and twice as welcome, as any other visitor outside of Marlene Dietrich. He liberated artist's material where he could find it: in Italy he often sketched on the backs of the Mussolini portraits that hung in most Italian homes. "I was no hero," says Mauldin. "I wasn't leading a perilous life." But he got close enough to the shooting to be superficially injured...
...Lawrence graduate whom Mauldin met at a Manhattan party after the war, has learned not to talk to Bill at bedtime, when his glazed eyes tell her he has fallen into an inspirational mood. The neighbors are used to the predawn roar of Mauldin's 14-year-old Jeep; he is off to the paper to make some suddenly visualized change in his cartoon...
...more than $1 billion more this year than last on new weapons and techniques for fighting limited wars. To give its 14 divisions more mobility and firepower, the Army will get large quantities of armored personnel carriers, 51-ton M-60 tanks, self-propelled artillery and a new super-jeep. The Army will have an increased tactical atomic punch, with assault missiles ranging from the 500-mile, solid-fuel Pershing down to the Davy Crockett, which can be carried by two G.I.s. The Marine Corps will increase in size from 175,000 to 190,000 men, get two new battalions...