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Died. Lieut. Gen. Manton Sprague Eddy, 69, U.S.A. (ret.), squinty, steadfast foot soldier who won a World War I commission as a second lieutenant despite having been expelled from two high schools, in World War II led the fast-moving 9th Division through North Africa and Sicily, subsequently took the XIIth Corps across the Rhine and as Commander, U.S. Army in Europe, rebuilt the occupation army in Germany into a mainstay of NATO's shield; of a heart attack; at Fort Benning...
...Washington lawyer and civic leader, longtime (since 1932) president of Washington's Columbus University Law School, sometime (1925, 1947) special assistant to U.S. attorney generals; of a heart attack; in Washington. Leahy's clients included: Bigtime Mobsters Al Capone and Dutch Schultz, Federal Judge Martin T. Manton...
...best lowest-paid orchestra in the world." No Army brass, and little of its rank and file, thought in the spring of 1952 that the occupation forces needed a symphony orchestra. But, according to the story now favored by the orchestra members, the Seventh Army's Lieut. General Manton S. Eddy got tired of being ribbed by his German friends about the cackle of hillbilly music that emanated daily from the Armed Forces Radio. When he heard that an energetic young corporal named Samuel Adler wanted to form an orchestra of musicians who were languishing in other Army jobs...
...control or influence of the Roman Catholic Church and its doctrines ... It is un-Christian ... to make such outrageous accusations against the one church which is doing the most in the world today to alleviate the sufferings of the "dirt-encrusted, malnourished and disease-ridden children." ROBERT K. MANTON Bad Kreuzenach, Germany...
Last week Secretary Pace named two generals who would stay on active duty two months beyond their scheduled retirements at the age of 60. The two: Lieut. General Manton S. Eddy, commander in chief, U.S. Army, Europe-and Van Fleet...