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...Davis & Blanchard, Elizabeth Arden, Pauline Betz, Frank Leahy, Leo Durocher, Jake Kramer, Jackie Robinson, Bob Chappuis, Barbara Ann Scott, Eddie Arcaro, Mel Patton, Joe DiMaggio, Ben Hogan...
Like many another military man, the late General George Patton was prayerful as well as profane. He was also a peremptory commander who did not hesitate to let the Almighty know what kind of cooperation he expected. When bad weather held up his advance before the Battle of the Bulge, he is reported (by one of his staff) to have called in Third Army Chaplain James H. O'Neill, and said: "Chaplain, I want you to publish a prayer for good weather . . . See if we can't get God to work on our side." The chaplain demurred...
...Another Patton prayer for success in battle, recently published in the Swedish Life Guard Grenadiers' regimental journal, kicked up an ecclesiastical furor. It was accompanied by an editorial praising the general's "truehearted, frank religiousness in his intercourse with...
...began Patton in a prayer on Dec. 23, 1944, the eve of the Ardennes offensive, "this is Patton talking . . . Rain, snow, more rain, more snow-and I am beginning to wonder on which side they actually are in Thy headquarters . . . You must decide for Yourself on whose, side You are standing. You must come to my help so that I can annihilate the whole German army with one stroke as a birthday present for Your Prince of Peace...
Four days later Patton prayed in a different vein: "Sir, this is Patton again and I beg to report complete progress . . . Sir, it seems to me that You have been much better informed about the situation than I was, because it was that awful weather which I cursed so much which made it possible for the German army to commit suicide. That, Sir, was a brilliant military move and I bow humbly to a supreme military genius...