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...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...
...North and South postponed a showdown on the "loyalty pledge" issue raised at 1952's national convention, and appointed a committee to study the problem. Grinned Missouri's Senator Thomas C. Hennings Jr., on leaving a peaceful Rules Committee meeting: "We are all against the man-eating shark." Adlai Stevenson, with his gift for the precise phrase, described the party's spirit as "creeping harmony...
Humor was much, but what was the most help to the men of the Perth was the sense of tradition and group solidarity. The Survivors is thick with recollections of men in shark-infested waters who supported men they had never known, or gave their places on rafts to the wounded, or kept their mates awake and alive by jabbing planks in their faces. Morale of this sort held out for several days, until all the men McKie writes about had managed to get ashore on Java...
...islands and two mainland settlements along the banks of French Guiana's Maroni River. But the name sticks: only the Devil himself could have designed such hellish discomfort for his prisoners as those that abounded in the steaming jungles of Guiana, or hired jailers as efficient as the shark-infested seas and fever-ridden swamps that stood guard on all sides of the Cayenne colony. The world got its first full whiff of Devil's Island iniquity in the case of Captive Alfred Dreyfus, who spent four years there before his defender, Emile Zola, wrote J'accuse...
...snapped: "You know we don't pose for that kind of picture." A lot of guests went out of their way not to chat with McCarthy, yet he was not lonely. His committee counsel, little Roy Cohn, hovered around him like a pilot fish in front of a shark, and the junior Senator from Wisconsin saluted with a kiss Mrs. Robert Vogeler, as pretty a blonde as any there...