Word: patton
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...enough big names to make a big list of favorites. Deane Beman, the 1960 winner, was there. So were Charles Coe (winner in '49 and '58), Harvie Ward ('55 and '56) and Ted Bishop ('46). There was North Carolina's own Billy Joe Patton, a perennial gallery favorite, and at 40 certainly the best amateur never to win a major tournament. And then there were scores of kids, respectful of their elders, to be sure, but slamming golf balls with devastating irreverence...
Died. Dean Bartlett Cromwell, 82, longtime track coach at the University of Southern California, who from 1909 to 1948 produced teams that won more national championships (twelve) and more individual honors (among his champions: World Record Sprinters Charlie Paddock, Frank Wycoff, Mel Patton) than any other coach; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
...Major George S. Patton. 38. also on Harkins' staff. Father: the late George S. ("Blood and Guts") Patton...
...loved true honour more than fame," read the inscription under the picture of Robert Gardner in the Nashua, N.H. high school yearbook of 1941. Gardner became a professional soldier, fought under General George Patton in World War II, served in a combat unit in Korea. This spring Staff Sergeant Gardner was sent to South Viet Nam as a military "adviser." It was to be the last overseas assignment of his 20-year hitch; next year he planned to retire and enroll in a Florida umpires' school in hopes of becoming a major-league baseball umpire...
World War II found Harkins assigned as assistant chief of staff to General George ("Blood and Guts") Patton, serving under that skilled, flamboyant leader from North Africa to the bloody slash into Nazi Germany. Outwardly, the two were totally different: Patton, a shootin', cussin' swashbuckler; Harkins, quiet, firm, invariably polite. But a fellow officer says, "I really think that inside, he and Patton were the same." The same, certainly, in their drive for victory...