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General George S. Patton Jr. slipped into the act just at the last moment: the General had his picture taken astride a white horse (see cut) which Hitler had intended to send to the Emperor...
...General Patton's Third Army, which looked good racing across the battlefronts of Europe, looked just as good last week on the playing fields. In Nämnberg's vast stadium, the Third Army marched away with the ETO track & field championships. Best performance of the day was Corporal Horace Mamala's 10.7 for 100 meters, a new ETO mark...
...General Patton himself, watching from the stands, stepped down from a gold laurel leaf-draped dais to kiss a corporal's hand. The recipient of this attention was muscular Corporal Brady Walker of Provo, Utah, who had just hurled a discus 142 ft. 9 in., to lead Patton's men to victory...
...portraits you will see were lent by the newsmakers they depict - for the originals of TIME covers have gone (among many others) to General Hodges and Madame Soong, General Krueger and Senator Vandenberg, Mrs. Jimmy Doolittle and the mother of General Mark Clark. TIME'S painting of General Patton is framed at his Massachusetts home "Green Meadow" - General Somervell's portrait is in his office at the Pentagon Building - and our painting of General "Tooey" Spaatz hangs on the wall of his wife's home in Washington ("I have never seen a picture of him half...
...100th day as U.S. President, Harry Truman emerged from the secrecy-fenced Potsdam compound of the Big Three meeting (see INTERNATIONAL). He had a ceremonial job to do in Berlin, and he evidently relished doing it. Along with War Secretary Stimson and Generals Eisenhower, Bradley, Patton and Clay, he went to witness the raising of the official U.S. victory flag* over the headquarters of the U.S. Group Control Council...