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...resemblance between Pistol-Packing Patton of the lacquered helmet and Two-Gun Mosby (see cut), who rode to battle in a scarlet-lined cape, with a brilliant plume in his campaign hat, is no mere coincidence. Colonel Mosby lived until 1916. He was a friend of Patton's father, whose own father had died with his Confederate boots on in the Battle of Cedar Creek. Colonel Mosby was the boyhood idol of George Patton, who made up his mind at age seven that he was going to be a U.S. Army officer...
...resemblance between Patton the ardent athlete, the nimble fencer, the expert horseman and Patton the hard-cussing, harddriving, hard-working maker of war is also more than coincidental. Patton the Man and Patton the General are inextricably the same...
...George Patton, individual, can be engagingly attractive-urbane, almost courtly in manner, quiet in speech. Reputedly one of the Regular Army's wealthiest officers, he has a high social polish. He and his wife, Beatrice Ayer Patton, both have ample means, and in peacetime enjoy social life at their California ranch and handsome farm at Hamilton, Mass. In moments of ease Patton mixes a heady conversational cocktail of military erudition that might range from the 6th Century B.C. precepts of Sun Tzu to the tactics by which George Patton took the citadel at Metz...
...George Patton, General, is a dazzling mixture. The oldest field commander of any Allied army in Europe (he will be 60 next Armistice Day), Patton is still tigerish in action. On the field he shouts orders in a high-pitched voice. He can rawhide a private or a lesser general with a flow of profanity that is perhaps the richest in all the hard-swearing U.S. armies. A moment later he can be gently lifting a wounded man from a tank, calming him with soothing words...
Drama and Corn. Patton the General is also Patton the Actor. Showmanship is instinctive in him. Like all practiced actors he can manage a deft touch of corn or a flight of oratory. He fits his act to his audience's mood. Example : his greeting to a Negro battalion arriving at his battle front-"I don't give a damn what color you are so long as you get out there and kill those sons of bitches in the green suits...