Word: mathewson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LEMUEL MATHEWSON, 51, artillery and airborne expert, to Berlin to take over from Taylor; two stars...
...freedom. Said Taylor, who will return to the U.S. to become an assistant U.S. Army chief of staff: "Here is the spirit of the front line, which brings a solidarity found nowhere else in Germany, perhaps nowhere else in Europe . . ." Then Taylor introduced his successor, Major General Lemuel Mathewson, 51, a West Pointer with 28 years' service in the Army, and a crack artilleryman. Said General Taylor: "He will be another American who came to occupy Berlin, stayed to defend it, and left as a Berliner...
...Tying him with Christy Mathewson's National League record, but falling short of Walter Johnson's 414 in the American League and Cy Young's alltime 511 in both leagues...
...whose loyalty has been stretched pretty thin for the past twelve years. While the Giants floundered around in the lower depths of the National League, the Giant fan has had to live on memories of Manager John McGraw's fighting teams and of such great pitchers as Christy Mathewson, Fred Fitzsimmons and Carl Hubbell...