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Burke kidded and rawhided them into battle shape, turned his engines at 31 knots, dressed each ship with a new in-signe: the "Little Beaver," a character from Artist Fred Harman's comic strip Red Ryder...
...baseball team alone turned out eight generals. The class itself has provided more than 30-about half of its members still on the active list. Other Bradley classmates include General Eisenhower; Lieut. General Joseph T. McNarney, Deputy Chief of Staff; Major General Charles W. Ryder, Commander of the 34th In fantry Division in Italy; General George E. Stratemeyer, Air Force commander in the China-Burma-India theater...
...covered by twelve anti-tank guns and speed for Kairouan, felt that there was something essentially wrong with the 34th, which had been unable to take the hills on the south side of the pass. The four U.S. correspondents who saw that battle went to Major General Charles W. Ryder's headquarters to get his side of the story...
...there was more to it than that, as this correspondent learned later-not from able General Ryder, who knew his men too well to make excuses for them. The tactical plan, as devised by the British IX Corps, called for a frontal assault by the 34th on its objective while the hill to the north of the pass, which dominated the 34th's objective, was still in enemy hands. U.S. infantry works better in enveloping tactics. If the hill to the north had been taken first, and then the southern hills attacked from either flank, the story of Fondouk...
...novel Ryder, written in many different styles, parodyed Fielding, the Bible, Chaucer. That same year The Barnes published, privately and anonymously, her self-illustrated Ladies Almanack ("showing their Signs and their tides; their Moons and their Changes; the Seasons as it is with them; their Eclipses and Equinoxes; as well as a full Record of diurnal and nocturnal Distempers"). Says The Barnes: "By tramping the Paris streets I sold about 500 copies to bookstores and friends. Ten copies shipped to the U.S. were banned. The remainder are in France, in the hands of the Nazis...