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...once, Patton had said that he wanted to die on the battlefield. Man in Armor. A cavalryman by training and by temperament, California-born George Patton was the medieval man on horseback-in mechanized armor. Even before his country was at war, he wanted to joust with Nazi Erwin Rommel-each contestant in a tank. "The two armies could watch," said he. "I'd shoot at him, he'd shoot at me. If I killed him, I'd be the champ. If he killed me-well...
...curios of the famous and infamous. Samples: Adolf Hitler's dice ($150); Thomas Alva Edison's personal dental chair ($300) ; a spoon made by Paul Revere ($105); Mark Twain's portable writing desk ($125); a dagger owned by Rudolph Valentino ($200); a letter from Field Marshal Rommel to his wife, dated October 1943, which read: "Russian campaign going well. . . . Americans not ready...
...million words turned out to be about 8,000,000-enough to fill a half-dozen filing cabinets. They were the dispatches that some 80 TIME correspondents had filed from London during the blitz, from Manila as the Japanese struck, from Bataan before it fell, from Libya as Rommel lunged at Cairo, from battlefields in the Aleutians, in Burma, in Sicily, in Italy, in Russia, in the South Pacific...
...tour have not yet appeared on the cover of TIME (right now we have 49 covers showing probable future newsmakers all ready to put on the press). And some of these traveling portraits never will be printed. One of them is Baker's painting of the late Erwin Rommel; another is Chaliapin's portrait of Field Marshal Siegmund List. For these covers were painted months ago - when the Nazi tide was at full flood and it seemed one or another of these enemy brasshats would have to make TIME'S cover some week...
...Rommel No Lee. Appraising the opposition, General Ike called Rundstedt "the most accomplished soldier we met." Rommel was "bold and courageous, but he was not a Lee or Marlborough or anything like that." The German professionals did not "respect Hitler's strategic brain very highly," but Hitler ran the whole show during...