Word: pattons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Beatrice Ayer Patton, 67, widow of the U.S. Army's late great armor tactician, General George S. Patton Jr.; of injuries suffered in a fall from her horse; in South Hamilton. Mass. Like her husband, Beatrice Patton was an outspoken believer in the strenuous life. She wrote a historical novel (Blood of the Shark), composed band music for her husband's tank units, helped prepare his pep talks to his troops. After Patton's death in 1945, she campaigned for universal military training ("It makes Americans out of all sorts of odds and ends...
...Another Chaplin ex-protegee, 33-year-old Joan Berry, who won a 1946 paternity suit against the comedian, was admitted to Patton State Hospital (for the mentally ill) after she was found walking the streets barefoot, carrying a pair of baby sandals and a child's ring, and murmuring: "This is magic...
...jailer-A. J. Allen of Garrett, Ky.: "My relationship on my father's side is that George Allen was my grandfather. Grandmother Allen was the daughter of James P. Patton. My mother was Reuben Stephens' daughter. I am the son of Andrew Allen. My grandmother Stephens was the sister of the late L. Hicks and Jonathan Hicks, of Middle Creek. I married the daughter of Bud Handshoe, of Hueysville, Ky. Her mother was the daughter of Hi Fitch. The deceased George Fitch, of the Mouth of Brush Creek, was her uncle. A few words to mothers: If your...
...Patton M48 medium tank, now being built by Chrysler, General Motors and Ford, will be built by only one of the three. Ford is already scheduled to stop production by year's end; Chrysler and G.M. will submit bids by August on the remaining M-48s to be built, with the loser stopping M48 output next March...
...TIME'S thanks to Captain George S. Patton IV for setting its treads straight. For a view of Colonel Fondren just after returning from a sharp firefight at the front...