Word: pattonisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There's So Little . . ." This week on the farm of Rene Muzart, the wheat was being harvested under the protection of troops with a Patton tank. When the harvest is finished, the tank and the soldiers will go elsewhere. So the Muzarts are leaving their farm-perhaps forever...
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...
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...
Billy Joe Patton, the bold and nerveless amateur who did so well in the Masters, got off fast with a field-leading 69. one under par. Next day he was far off the pace, with a 76. Sam Snead, great golfer and perennial money winner, still trying for his first Open title, was in trouble from the beginning. Gary Middlecoff, Lloyd Mangrum, Dick Mayer-usually reliable performers-stumbled and came to the halfway mark four strokes back...
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...