Word: pattonisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other Crimson skaters will be weakened but playing. Ed Mrkonich and Tony Patton have both also had the flu this week, but both are expected to be ready. Brad Richardson will start, as usual, in the goal...
...James P. O'Brien's plan to end the war in Korea by forming a Foreign Legion of Japanese [Letters column, Jan. 12] brings to mind some words of General George Patton on the occasion of his taking command of the Third Army in England, a few months before the invasion of Normandy. In explaining to his troops the reasons for their presence in Europe in 1944, General Patton said: "We have to fight because we have committed ourselves to fight at the side of our allies. We have to fight because we cannot live in a world...
Mangrum's golfing career was roughly interrupted by World War II. From D-day at Omaha Beach, through France, Germany and Czechoslovakia, he picked up three Purple Hearts and four battle stars as a reconnaissance sergeant in Patton's Third Army. He also got a badly crushed shoulder and a broken arm from a jeep accident. But Lloyd Mangrum, durable and determined, returned to the tough tournament grind convinced that "golf is a cinch compared to what I went through in the war." His first year back, playing for the U.S. Open title, golf's most coveted...
...points, is the top defenseman. g a tp Hubbard 11 8 19 Greeley 6 13 19 Clasby 9 1 10 Manchester 3 6 9 Gray 4 3 7 Chase 2 4 6 Coolidge 2 4 6 Bliss 3 2 5 Wood 1 2 3 Mahoney 2 0 2 Patton 1 1 2 Mrkouich 0 2 2 O'Brien 0 2 2 Harvey 1 0 1 Almy 0 1 1 Totals...
...seven months of work, the Vance committee went from agency to agency in Washington, asking questions that often brought quick results. Why was the Army scheduling production of 20,000 M48 Patton tanks while its own estimates showed that there was a need for only 7,500 of them? Lacking an answer, the Army cut its production schedule in half...