Word: pattonisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bound for Norfolk from Rhode Island aboard her ocean-going yacht When & If, Mrs. George S. Patton Jr., widow of the wartime commander of the U.S. Third Army, was notified of the death of her daughter, Mrs. John K. Waters, after a widespread sea search by the Coast Guard, radiotelegraph stations and a commercial radio station. Mrs. Patton put in to port and rushed back to her daughter's home in Highland Falls...
...leader. He was my lifelong friend. We were intimate. He committed an error. It was a definite error; there was no question about it. I believed that the work of that man was too great to sacrifice . . . He has gone before the highest judge of all, but . . . certainly George Patton justified my faith...
...third and fourth floors of Patton Hall, on the campus of Princeton University, four studies, eight bedrooms and a bathroom had been combined into an undergraduate's idea of a comfortable duplex apartment. There, in the days when Harding was in the White House and F. Scott Fitzgerald chased his gin-filled grail, roomed nine Princetonians (Class of '22). One of them was a fellow always in a bustle about various campus activities (Daily Princetonian, Senior Council, etc.), and who had, in the words of one of his roommates, "a short, quick walk and a funny nose...
Over the years most people forgot that Louis had ever existed, but last week an FBI agent called at the Patton home. (The family later decided that Louis must have been betrayed by a sister's estranged husband.) Mr. Patton, who answered the door, called to Louis to come downstairs. But it was Mrs. Patton, not Louis, who came down. While she ordered the agent out of the house, Louis slipped down the back stairs and got clean away. As soon as she could, Mrs. Patton joined her son and hustled him off to New York. There...
...week's end Louis Patton had been freed on $2,000 bail, was back home in West Hartford, where his mother once again was guarding his privacy. On Aug. 19 Louis Patton will have to come out of seclusion to face charges of draft evasion. No charges at all have been placed against his mother...