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...most important fact in U.S. relations with the world last week. President Truman had often called him "the greatest living American." Congress, having listened to his hours of patient testimony before wartime committees, respected him. The world at large, to which he was not as well known as Eisenhower, Patton or MacArthur, realized that he was the great architect of the military victory...
SAMUEL W. PATTON...
...almost as youthful (average age: 23) as his public. He organized his first orchestra-15 kids who called themselves the Band-busters-when he was twelve. They played high-school dances in Philadelphia. Five of Lawrence's current bandsmen are original Bandbusters, including the singer, brunette Rosalind Patton, who sang an uncertain treble for the orchestra when she was eleven, is now a limpid-voiced contralto...
...Miller, political reporter for this issue, had his preliminary experience in University of Nevada '38, with the United Press and the First Marines on Guadalcanal and with Georgie Patton in Germany...
...most powerful and honored figures in France, one of the closest confidants of its President Charles de Gaulle. He had capped a brilliant career as chief of the Gaullist Intelligence Service by dramatically parachuting into Brittany to command French resistance forces at the moment of Patton's breakthrough...