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General Heinz Guderian, tank expert, at Berchtesgaden belittled U.S. tanks and Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton ("he followed the same principle that I used in Poland, France and Russia"). declared U.S. and German soldiers should shake hands and make up ("just like after a football match...
Burned Up. A trusted veteran of 20 years' reporting, and the A.P.'s European war chief, Kennedy had rashly risked his reputation. Why? He had sat on stories before: like some other newsmen in the Mediterranean, for example, he had known all about the Patton face-slapping incident, and had kept it quiet-only to have Drew Pearson spill...
Nobody was apt to think of leftish James George Patton, the big, hard-working president of the Farmers Union, as a director of a $300 million corporation. And the notion that Jim Patton would sit on the same board of directors with Montgomery Ward & Co.'s labor-baiting Sewell L. Avery was even more incongruous. But for a little while last week it looked as if these incongruities might come to pass...
...Chicago at the annual meeting of Montgomery Ward & Co. stockholders, Jim Patton was the candidate of a large group of stockholders who disapprove of Avery's unbending defiance of the National War Labor Board, and were out in proxy-collecting force for Sewell Avery's scalp. But in the final showdown Sewell Avery won handsomely. Dazzled by a 60% jump in profits before taxes for the first quarter of this year ($12.6 million v. 1944-3 $7.9 million), some of the rebellious stockholders thoughtfully laid aside their tomahawks. Final score: Rebel Patton: 1.8 million votes; Sewell Avery...
...marriage vows, answered, "I ain't never exactly broke 'em, but I've sure give 'em a hell of a twist sometimes." Talk at the Anchor ranged from speculation on how partridges mated ("No man, they say, has ever seen the mating") to admiration of Patton's latest offensive...