Word: pattonisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Call Me Patton. George soon became a familiar figure in Miami's upholstered nightclubs and casinos. He changed his name to Patton, although he was known around town as "George the Greek." Despite his new-found affluence, nobody bothered to invite George when the Kefauver crime investigating committee visited Miami last spring. But when the Dade County grand jury met, George was on hand. Nobody really expected a smart boy like George to talk; it was a matter of routine. But for some reason, George entered the grand jury room and began to sing. Before he was through...
Dashing across Austria with his tanks in the spring of 1945, ex-Cavalryman George S. Patton paused long enough to watch a prancing white stallion being put through some remarkable parade-ground paces. General Patton had heard the story of Vienna's famed Spanish Riding School and its Lipizzan* horses. Their classical routines went back to the 16th Century, their bloodlines to Spain and Arabia. When Patton learned that the Nazis had appropriated the Lipizzans and sent 200 mares and foals to a town in Czechoslovakia, he acted with characteristic dash. He sent a tank column to bring them...
...last week, 110,000 U.S. horse fans had had a look at the culture that had so impressed George Patton, and most of them were impressed too. Under Col. Alois Podhajsky and his riders of the Vienna school, the Lipizzans were the No. I spectacle of Manhattan's National Horse Show...
...American." But the Daughters of the American Revolution were alarmed. Their president general, Mrs. James B. Patton in Washington, declared that the U.N. flag should be displayed only at U.N. meetings, and never above, or in equal prominence with, Old Glory. Ex-Marine Charles C. Rails, national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, also viewed Agriculture's efforts darkly. "Could there be more significance in this effort to 'sell' the U.N. flag as a symbol to supersede the American flag?" he demanded...
...TIME, July 24) raced ahead, aided by U.S. tanks and rockets from F-80s. Said trim, 30-year-old General Paik, "Now at least we have some tanks, too, and it is wonderful. My tactic is 'no stop.' " He added proudly, "Now we can be like General Patton...