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Major General Manton S. Eddy, who takes a fatherly interest in his men, found time to wonder. Interested by a TIME report (Feb. 26) on how wives back home were meeting the test of war, General Eddy suggested taking a poll of officers and men in his XII Corps, which is part of Patton's Third Army...
...Maria Manton, 20, flame-haired daughter of Marlene Dietrich, preparing to make her Broadway debut in a play called Foolish Notion, announced that she would stand on her own two legs-though they were not as shapely nor as celebrated as her mother's. Said Maria: "I have never done anything but be born to a famous mother. ... I want to get some place by myself. . . . That is why . . . I am not interested in movies...
...Corps welded several bridgeheads across the Moselle into one, engulfing Thionville, then launched a push which carried across the German border. The 3rd Cavalry Division seized the German villages of Besch and Wochern, while the 10th Armored rumbled through a place called Launstroff-three miles inside Germany. Major General Manton S. Eddy's XII Corps, halted only briefly by counterattacks, was swinging around to the south and east of Metz toward Saarbrücken...
...Pincers Close. From a line be tween Metz and Nancy, Major General Manton S. Eddy's XII Corps had jumped off in midweek, behind an artillery barrage so heavy that, according to one correspondent, the firing sheets looked like railroad timetables. Next day 1,300 heavy bombers came. The weather was too bad for close support, but they dropped 4,000 tons of bombs on Metz itself and on Saarbrücken...
...Division: Major General Manton S. Eddy, 52, 6 ft. 2, 210 lbs.; a stickler for detail and physical conditioning, who used to run his officers daily over a five-mile course in Africa to keep them in trim...