Ev JOHN STECK General George S. Patton. Jr., the .inpetuou. ' .jldier-slapper. and the man of compassionate wrath who c iki make a whole German vjl ' v man woman and child—scrub ■ it; lent es one oi its horrible con* c -r.! ration camp: lived again for Tarmviile Lions last Friday. To pis! 1-packing general who '■ u/ht with a flourish, but lies in miple grave, by his own choice, the European battlefield where i rose to fame, came to life ■uvuch the fascinating recounting • . Dr. James A. Wellard, of Long wood College. 'I he Longwood associate professor ■ ! English, then a newspaper war i rrespondeni. followed General Patton from Africa to the Siegfried I.aie, last stout battlement before Berlin. Wellard, who wrote a book based ti his close observations of the eneral and after researches which collided talks with Patton's widow, considers him "one of the great oidiers in American History.’ Great American
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