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...then went off to World War II service as a B-29 crewman (nine combat missions in the Pacific). The war also separated the Johnsons. Ruth served as a WAVE lieutenant in Washington, editing secret papers for an admiral on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. An infantry lieutenant in Patton's army, Frank won a Bronze Star in the Normandy invasion, was wounded twice and sent back to England as a legal officer...
Slow starters in their first five games, Coach Bruce Munro's stickmen got going quickly Saturday, but three tallies each by Penn's Jim Patton and Bill Lawrence proved the Crimson's undoing. The visitors dominated play in the final three quarters to slosh to their fifth straight win this year on a muddy Cumnock Field...
...encircled 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. Often cut off himself, the cigar-chomping tanker once said: "They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards." Abrams' embrace of battle earned him the unqualified admiration of his fiery Third Army Commander, George Patton: "I'm supposed to be the best tank commander in the Army, but I have one peer-Abe Abrams...
...midfielders have been Penn's strong point this year, particularly Gil Costin and Charley Dewey. Jim Patton and Irwin Klein have supplied offensive power...
...went with George Patton. Temperamentally Marshall had nothing in common with the gaudy, poeticizing, rich, vain, bombastic, blasphemous fire eater. Once, Patton pressed his luck too far. At a private dinner, he used his friendship with Marshall to plead for a demoted colonel who had criticized the War Department. Said Marshall: "I am speaking now as the Chief of Staff to General Patton, not to my friend General Patton. You have encouraged the colonel in his attacks, and you have destroyed him. I will not promote him; never mention it to me again...