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Another grad student is packing for New Zealand. Donald Patton, a teaching fellow last year, is right now an army research worker, and will lecture at the University of New Zealand after getting his Ph.D. here this February...
After Allen went off to war in 1942, some of the steam went out of the Merry-Go-Round, but it never broke down. Pearson got many a beat like the General George Patton* slapping story merely by printing what other newsmen knew, but had kept to themselves from feelings of patriotism or a foggy sense of newspaper ethics. He also made many a wild forecast -among them, that Marshal Tito would be assassinated in 1947 and, along with almost every pundit, that Truman would be beaten in 1948. He has not yet lived down his 1946 "disclosure" that...
...This brought Pearson his closest brush with physical violence. In the House restaurant, Texas' Congressman Nat Patton (no kin to the general) beerily waved a knife under Pearson's nose until Maury Maverick interceded and eased Pearson out of harm...
Next term the vice-president in charge of planning will be Richard K. Fink 2L, while William D. Patton 2L will work as the group's publicity director. Thomas C. Sheperd 2L will serve a second term as treasurer and Fred M. Kecker 2L will be the secretary...
...says Ike, "General Montgomery was acquainted only with the situation in his own sector . . . He deliberately pursued certain eccentricities of behavior, one of which was to separate himself habitually from his staff ... He consistently refused to deal with a staff officer from any headquarters other than his own . . ." Like Patton, Monty frankly admitted his debt to Ike: "I know my own faults very well and I do not suppose I am an easy subordinate; I like to go my own way. But you have kept me on the rails in difficult and stormy times, and have taught me much...