Word: pattonism
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...more crack like that," snarls a private to a major, "an' you won't have yer job back after th' war." Inevitably, this kind of enlisted man's license landed Mauldin in trouble. It culminated in a personal confrontation with Lieut. General George S. Patton in Luxembourg...
...seems," says Mauldin dryly, "that General Patton didn't like the sloppy, insubordinate-looking soldiers I was drawing. He pulled several of my cartoons out of a drawer. I asked him if he thought I was inaccurate. He admitted that the men do look like that at the front. Then I asked him if he wanted me to make inaccurate pictures of the men. He said no-he didn't want me to do that. Then he changed the subject." From the encounter, Mauldin-and Willie and Joe-emerged in unrepentant triumph...
...need only be added that at one point Pidgeon is forced to slap, in the manner of General Patton, a malingering crew member played by Frankie Avalon, a vapid juvenile customarily billed as a singer. In view of the song Avalon emits while the credits are being shown, Pidgeon clearly shirked his duty. Patton would have fed the squirt to the squid...
...track and field stars had seldom looked better. Villanova's muscular Frank Budd sprinted 100 yds. in 9.2 sec. to smash Mel Patton's 1948 world record, oldest on the books. No fewer than 13 pole vaulters scaled 15 ft. California Schoolboy Ulis Williams, 19, chased Veteran Olympic Champion Otis Davis, 28, to the wire in the 440, finished only 0.2 sec. behind him. An unorthodox upstart from Southern California, Bob Avant, dived headfirst over the high-jump bar, somersaulted onto his back with a crunching thud after clearing 7 ft. to beat Boston University's John...
...Dash. So far this season, four men-San Jose State's Dennis Johnson, Villanova's Frank Budd, Oregon's Harry Jerome, Florida A. & M.'s Bob Hayes-have equaled Mel Patton's 13-year-old. 9.3-sec. record. Somewhere between Manhattan and Moscow, one of the quartet may well set a new mark. Best prospect: Johnson, a sinewy Jamaican sprinter who has already been clocked in 9.2 sec. while running ahead of a helpful tail wind...