Word: pattons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lieut. General Walton Harris ("Johnnie") Walker had earned a new nickname for himself in Korea. In World War II, as one of the late George Patton's favorite corps commanders, he had become a specialist in the armored attack. In Korea he had had to turn to defensive tactics-first in the Pusan perimeter, where, with no reserves, he smartly shuttled front-line units from one crisis to another; more recently in North Korea, where he directed the pullback that saved his Eighth Army from destruction. Walker's new nickname: "Little Bulldog...
...Just five years ago Walker's World War II chief, George Patton, was killed in an automobile wreck near Mannheim, Germany...
Since each member scored once, the Crimson line of Colt, Bray, and Wood seemed the superior on offense, while the Patton, Clasby, Horween combination shone on defense. Individually outstanding were Melrose's Bobby Marsolats, rated last year as one of the stronger players in the Greater Boston League, and the home team's rugged defenseman Jeff Coolidge...
...summary. HARVARD MELROSE H. S. Marshall g Whynot Coolidge rd Kennifie Arnold id Hennigar Horween rw Kelley Clasby c Cicoria Patton...
...Placed its first order for medium tanks since World War II: 500 of an "improved" model said to have greater firepower than the Patton M-46, to be built by the American Locomotive Co. of Schenectady "at the earliest possible date...