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...biggest outfits in the booming renting business is United Rent-All Corp. of Lincoln, Neb., which was started by Unemployed Railroad Worker D. R. Patton in 1947. Today, Patton's company sells franchises to more than 300 dealers, who buy their equipment from United. The Hertz car-rental firm last year got into the act with three Chicago stores, and more planned. These two companies, as well as scores of independent dealers, can supply customers with anything from antique candelabra to concrete mixers...
...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...
...General Patton contended that this could unnecessarily make for a widespread problem in military discipline and apparently based his opinion on the rather surprising assertion that "we had the same trouble with Bairnsfather in the last war." Which at least shows that Mauldin was following a hallowed military tradition...
...General Patton's remark to Reader Breger (who is himself a cartoonist, creator of the much put-upon "Private Breger") was an apt comparison, even if it was not a sound complaint. Dashing Captain Bruce Bairnsfather went to France in 1914 with Britain's Royal Warwickshire Regiment, saw his cartoons-featuring a character called "Old Bill"-become immensely popular with soldiers and civilians alike. For a Bairnsfather World War I classic, which could have served as a prototype for Mauldin's World War II Willie and Joe cartoons...
...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...