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Correspondent Mecklin began covering the world's wars in 1942. He made five convoy crossings of the Atlantic, reported the Sicily landings and the St.-Lò breakout from Normandy. Mecklin was captured by the Germans in September of 1944, when he was racing through France with Patton's Army. He was released after three days, spent a week with the French underground before rejoining the U.S. forces. Among his prized souvenirs is a butter knife with the initials A.H. on the handle, taken from the ruins of Hitler's Berlin bunker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 28, 1954 | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

Governor Gordon Persons ordered National Guardsmen carrying submachine guns into Phenix City, and rushed there himself. For the first time the Army put the whole town off-limits to Benning troops. (In World War II General George Patton, in command at Benning, once threatened to clean up Phenix City with tanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Odds Were Right | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

Billy Joe Patton is the spectacled, spectacular amateur golfer who finished the recent Masters Golf tournament just a stroke behind golfdom's two top pros, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead. After the Masters-where he sprayed his tee shots into the woods, then scrambled to some remarkable recoveries-grinning Billy Joe announced: "I hope I can come back next year. If I can nudge it up a little higher, we'll really have ourselves a roaring good time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golf for Fun | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

...down on the 35th hole, Billy Joe Patton plunked his tee shot into a trap, but staved off defeat by blasting out and sinking a ten-foot putt while Welsh was getting his par in a more conventional manner. Despite a tee shot deep into the woods, Patton won No. 36, to even matters with another scrambling par. "I never let well enough alone," observed Billy Joe with a grin as he watched his tee shot dribble into the rough beside a bush in the extra-hole playoff, where one miscue meant the match. "Here I go putting the ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golf for Fun | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

Billy Joe played his trick shot, lacing a No. 6 iron through a narrow opening, up and over a yawning trap, and landing the ball about 45 feet from the pin. After his approach putt, Billy Joe was still five feet away, while Welsh had a mere two-footer. Patton confidently plunked his five-footer into the cup. Welsh, finally unnerved by Billy Joe's breezy confidence, missed the two-footer and lost the match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golf for Fun | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

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