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...Tracy's suspiciously high standard of living. Their question: Has the nation's favorite funny-page detective been a grafter all these years? The uproar was so loud that it reached the ears of Tracy's strip father, Cartoonist Chester Gould. He decided to have Pat Patton, the strip's police chief and Tracy's boss, call Tracy in last week for an explanation. Even from Dick Tracy, the nemesis of criminals for 20 years, it sounded thin. Said Detective Tracy: "I've had a steady job here . . . for 20 years...
Victory & Winter. Two columns of burly Patton tanks thrust into the outskirts of Kumsong, shot up everything in sight, and retired to their lines without losing a vehicle, although the Reds had fired on them from a respectful distance with antitank guns. After that, it was clear that Kumsong was finished as an enemy base. There was no need for Van Fleet actually to occupy it until he could do so with a minimum of casualties. This week, after another bold tank raid in which the U.S. armor braved enemy mortar fire, a U.S. patrol moved up to within...
Under People in TIME of Sept. 24, you speak of the delicate mauve orchid christened Marshal Stalin, now renamed General George Patton. So that the realm of botany be graced with Stalin's name, why not rechristen the barrel cactus (I hope you never sit on one) Marshal Stalin...
...Armed Forces Wives' Club in Boston, Mrs. George S. Patton admitted that "nothing is permanent but change" in the life of an Army wife. However, she said, one secret of making dismal rooms homelike is "always to keep a few sweet potatoes growing. They really make exotic vines...
Americans praised British staff workers, but complained about British caution. They wanted more "hell-for-leather" lunges, George Patton-style. In the event of a Red attack on Germany, argued the British, the NATO troops should roll with the punch, save themselves for the counterattack. One major omission: "Counterthrust" featured no breakthrough and infiltration by "Redland"-favorite Red tactics...