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...spent his first seven matches in the U.S. Amateur championships nerving himself up to proper pitch. He sprayed his drives, flubbed his putts. Somehow, he managed to hang on. All around him, as they almost always do in the amateur championships, amateur hot-shots stumbled and fell. Billy Joe Patton, the hard-hitting Carolina lumber dealer was cut down in the second round; last year's runner-up, Charles Kocsis, was bumped in the fifth; Willie Turnesa, winner in 1938 and 1948, lost a 24-hole marathon to an unknown Florida insurance underwriter named Jack Penrose. Just...
...Truman meant the late George C. Patton, whose dashing, self-designed uniforms made gen erous use of four-star clusters...
...that the Germans ensured Allied success by a series of blunders: they concluded that the weather was not right for an invasion when it came; they canceled a routine E-boat patrol that might have discovered the coming attack; and they swallowed the carefully planted notion that General Patton was waiting to turn a whole Army group loose on the Pas de Calais. To meet the Pas de Calais attack that never came, the Germans kept 19 divisions at the ready that might have made Utah and Omaha a disaster for the Allies...
After fighting in the anti-Nazi underground in Warsaw, being captured by the Germans in the wake of the 1944 uprising, and being liberated by General Patton's U.S. Third Army, big, blond Witold von Henneberg and his brother Jacek made their way to the West, determined to become architects in the free world. Their father Wilhelm, vice president of the Polish Architectural Society, stayed behind, and in the period of increasing Russian influence on Polish artistic life was ordered to conform to backward Moscow-style architecture or not work...
Many other editors back up Washington's Friendly, J. Edward Murray, managing editor of the Los Angeles Mirror-News (circ. 307,858), notes that most projects want a reporter not "as an individual, but as a representative of a newspaper." Added Managing Editor Harvey Patton of the Detroit News: "As an old city hall reporter, I know that you are always being told things in confidence, and if a reporter belongs to a group and learns things in confidence, he can't do a good job as a reporter." Editor Fred W. Stein of the Binghamton (N.Y.) Press...