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...Aided by a 12-m.p.h. wind that made his effort unofficial, Abilene Christian's Bill Woodhouse, 21, did the 100-yd. dash in 9.1 sec., became the third man to reach such a clocking. The others: ex-Southern California Star Mel Patton, and Bobby Morrow, a former Woodhouse teammate at Abilene Christian...
...Army's entire strength in Europe (three pentomic infantry divisions and two armored divisions, armed with M48 Patton tanks, atomic cannon. Honest John and Redstone missiles) would be outmatched against the 22 Russian divisions in East Germany (4,000 new T-54 tanks) and the 125,000 to 150.000 Red-impressed German militiamen. NATO's 21 combat-ready divisions, organized for defense, would not likely be committed to road-opening chores...
Pickup. In Ashland, Ky., Motorist W. S. Patton kept looking in his rear view mirror, wondered why a light truck was following him so closely, finally discovered that the truck had no driver, had been hooked to his bumper since he backed into it in a parking space...
...HENRY H. PATTON New York City...
Worse than Defeat. On maneuvers in Louisiana in 1941, Reserve Captain Lodge had heard a lot about up-and-coming Colonel Dwight David Eisenhower, was impressed to hear Major General George Patton offer a $50 reward to anybody who took prisoner "a certain s.o.b. named Eisenhower." (Colonel Eisenhower was chief of staff of General Walter Krueger's Third Army; Patton was a division commander in the rival Second Army.) Lodge met Eisenhower, was an admirer from then on; he started publicly plugging Ike for President as far back as 1950. In November 1951, before General Eisenhower agreed...