Word: pattonism
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...around trainer but confidant and informal adviser to a long gray line of cadets. Since it all began in 1896, Director John Ford gets a chance to toss in the names or quick flashes of the faces of the West Pointers who later became national heroes: MacArthur, Patton, Bradley, Stratemeyer, Wainwright, Van Fleet, and in the scene depicting the first Army-Notre Dame football game of 1913, a fierce young Notre Dame end, Knute Rockne. There is also a glimpse of another of Maher's favorite lads: a blond, pink-faced boy named-Dwight Eisenhower (played by Harry Carey...
...young man has shed his drab finales and pale timidity for a West Coast sport coat and a jut-jawed aggressiveness. This action is marked by an exchange of witticisms which in places would hardly do credit to a reform school stag. For authors Theodore Hirsch and Jeanette Patton, this may be high comedy. More nearly, it is a wake over comedy's grave...
...morning he landed in Sicily in July 1943, General George Patton climbed a Rangers' observation post and watched a column of German tanks roll down on his invasion beachhead. A young naval ensign with a walkie-talkie said: "Can I help you, sir?" "Sure," roared the general, "if you can connect with your [profanity deleted] Navy, tell them for [profanity's] sake to drop some shellfire on that road." Somehow the ensign raised the cruiser Boise, which devastated the tanks with 38 rounds of 6-in. shells. "General Patton's conversion to the value of naval-gunfire...
CHRYSLER, which lost a big chunk of its defense business when General Motors took over as sole supplier of Patton M48 medium tanks last year, will soon be back in medium-tank production. By underbidding G.M., Chrysler won a new $160,600,000 Army contract for 1,800 Pattons to be produced at its Newark, Del. plant, has also landed a $22 million contract for experimental work on the Army's secret "Redstone" ground-to-ground guided missile...
When a rampant Senator fumbles for an analogy during a non-political after-dinner speech, he will often preface his remarks with "Reds like" and then add the names of whoever comes first to mind--John Patton Davies, John Stuart Service, or any of a half dozen others. Every campaigner has at his disposal--for quick use before the microphone is switched off--a neatly catalogued list of whipping boys who have been accused but not necessarily convicted...