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...trial convinced him that his daytime drama was on the right track-but he felt he needed something more emotionally robust than the comic-strip Puddles. Why not build a plot around a kindly, sympathetic prototype of mother? Ma Perkins was last week being renewed for still another (her 13th) year...
...next day in the match play battle at New Jersey's Essex County course. He sank a 35-footer, outdrove hard-slamming Sambo. Snead's putting meanwhile went from poor to punk, ended in a nose dive on the water-soaked greens. Nelson, six-up at the 13th, closed it out at the 33rd with the score four-and-three. That left the unofficial championship just about where it was in the first place. With a win apiece, Nelson and Snead were still wrapped up in a photo finish...
...year and roared into the ruptured German lines at Saint-L6. The closing phase of the war was an armored force field day. All of them - the 2nd, the 3rd, the 4th, the 5th, the 6th, the 7th, the 8th, the 9th, the 10th, the 11th, the 12th, the 13th, the 14th, the 16th, and the 20th - dashed off the edges of operational maps, slashed into Germany's heart. As uppity as all armored units (they speak pityingly of "the poor goddam in fantry"), they had never forgotten that uppity, onetime armored division commander, George S. Patton, who said...
...whenever he was at Hyde Park, he tried to get to Sunday services, where he lustily joined in the hymn-singing (among his favorites: 0 God, Our Help in Ages Past; Faith of Our Fathers; 0 Master, Let Me Walk with Thee}. His favorite text was the 13th chapter of I Corinthians, which ends: "And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity...
Last week, G.M.'s National was the 13th largest bank in the U.S., with total deposits of over a billion dollars. But G.M., still anxious to get back to its mechanical last, nevertheless unloaded the biggest controlling block of bank common stock ever to be offered publicly in a single transaction. It found eager buyers, since even at $42 National stock was a good deal. Nobody minded G.M.'s profit of over 100%. The emergency was over...