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...read the cover story in last week's TIME, I couldn't help wondering how we ever found out what General Patton wrote in his last letter to his wife-how we knew about the sail boat he has tied up against future leisure (it's called The When and If)-how we knew about his fighting the battles of Manassas and Gettysburg over again on the spot with his young son. More important, I wondered how we knew so intimately just how General Patton felt about the way the fighting had been going in Tunisia...
...found that Elizabeth Watkins in our Washington office had had a long talk with Mrs. Patton; and that other correspondents had talked with two of Patton's classmates at West Point-with fellow officers who had served with him in his Cavalry days-with the non-com who was with him when he was wounded in France...
...Wylie, our Louisville correspondent, gathered a fascinating dossier on General Patton at the Armored Force School at Fort Knox-a dossier which began: "The best unprinted stories about General Patton probably are those which are not very printable." And from Washington our War Department reporter, Jim Shepley, sent another 16 pages-much of it off-the-record information which cannot be published...
...headquarters building one day in a sudden downpour a man who looked like General Patton stood on the roof. He had a tin hat on, his slicker was buttoned close up around his neck. He was looking up at a grey heaven and he seemed to be wondering...
...Memphis to take over the Second Army command from Lieut. General Ben Lear (see col. 1) last week went Major General Lloyd R. Fredendall. who was relieved in Tunisia by Lieut. General George S. Patton...