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...enemy knew that more blows like it were soon to be unleashed. They warned themselves of "grand-scale attacks" on Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr.'s front. There the enemy had been given a foretaste: the hillside forts above Metz have been given preliminary dive bombings; 300 U.S. planes had given heavy tactical support. In the Nancy sector Patton's Third Army in four days had added more than 130 tanks (the equipment of a Panzer division) to its bag of 200 the week before...
...Against the Allies massed along the Siegfried Line it threw itself into local counterblows. In one area against Lieut. General George S. Patton's Third Army it spent more than 200 tanks in such counterattacks. But, by this week, Patton's armor had found a weak spot at another point, had plunged ahead six miles...
Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr., who, in the course of denying that he had ever bet $1,000 on beating other Allied generals to Paris, also denied that he had ever seen a $1,000 bill (TIME, Sept. 18), drew the sympathy of some admirers in Fort Worth. They decided he should and would have one to wave at Berliners...
Congressman Nat ("Cousin") Patton, black-hatted, bush-browed U.S. Representative from Texas, to whom almost everyone is "Cousin,"* found an exception in Columnist Drew Pearson. Cousin Patton, just defeated in a Texas run-off primary, met Pearson in the House restaurant, promptly pulled out a brown-handled knife, began to pound Pearson on the chest. Shouted Patton: "You beat me, you beat me. . . ." He demanded that the honor of another Patton (no kin) be cleared: ". . . you stabbed General Patton in the back when you wrote that story about him. You apologize to General Patton or I'll cut your...
Logically the bosses of army groups in Western Europe (Bradley and Devers), whose armies are commanded by two and three-star generals (Patch, Patton, Hodges, Simpson), should wear four stars. But this would rank them with General Dwight Eisenhower, boss of land, sea and air forces combined. Furthermore, the man who bosses Eisenhower, George Marshall, wears only four stars himself...