Word: patton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discussion I had with Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr. shortly after Bill Mauldin's encounter with him, he expressed his disapproval of Mauldin's portrayal of the front-line soldiers: the cartoons could influence too many rear-echelon soldiers-all the way back to England, if not the U.S.-into affecting similar sloppy appearances in order to look like combat soldiers...
...more crack like that," snarls a private to a major, "an' you won't have yer job back after th' war." Inevitably, this kind of enlisted man's license landed Mauldin in trouble. It culminated in a personal confrontation with Lieut. General George S. Patton in Luxembourg...
...seems," says Mauldin dryly, "that General Patton didn't like the sloppy, insubordinate-looking soldiers I was drawing. He pulled several of my cartoons out of a drawer. I asked him if he thought I was inaccurate. He admitted that the men do look like that at the front. Then I asked him if he wanted me to make inaccurate pictures of the men. He said no-he didn't want me to do that. Then he changed the subject." From the encounter, Mauldin-and Willie and Joe-emerged in unrepentant triumph...
...need only be added that at one point Pidgeon is forced to slap, in the manner of General Patton, a malingering crew member played by Frankie Avalon, a vapid juvenile customarily billed as a singer. In view of the song Avalon emits while the credits are being shown, Pidgeon clearly shirked his duty. Patton would have fed the squirt to the squid...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Patton and the Third Army follows the pistol-totin' general through North Africa to Sicily to Normandy and the headlong sprint to Germany. Mostly film clips, excellently edited...