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Charles Evans Hughes observed his 82nd birthday by taking his daily Washington constitutional with Mrs. Hughes, receiving newspapermen. Said he: "I am as well as can be reasonably expected at my time of life. I am living quietly, and trying to be as cheerful as possible in this war-torn world." He refused to keynote the Republican convention because (since retired Chief Justices can be called for work in the circuit courts) he is still an official magistrate of the Federal bench...
Next night the Sicilian campaign commander, Lieut. General George S. Patton, called for reinforcing troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to land within his own lines. Up went 170 planes, each bearing 18 paratroopers. They swung low over the water near Gela...
...many of the 170 planes were damaged the War Department would not say, but some estimates placed the figure as high as 50%. Neither would anyone say whether airborne British troops (also used in Sicily) fared better than the 82nd...
...divisional commaders, one of the highest-rated soldiers of the U.S. Army is Major General Hugh J. Gaffey, an artillery specialist turned leader of the 2nd Armored Division. Major General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, commander of the 82nd, first U.S. airborne division to strike the enemy, is a strapping six-footer who made a reputation as G-3 (operations) officer in the Second Army maneuvers...
...moved in from the beaches toward and through Vittorio and a juncture with Canadians of the Eighth Army. Some of the fighting was hard, the deeds of these divisions were valiant, but the detailed accounts were delayed. Inland, early in the advance, Major General Matthew B. Ridgway's 82nd Air-Borne Division preceded the other divisions to Sicily. Unannounced in the first eleven days of the fighting were the positions and accomplishments of the 2nd Armored Division, commanded by 47-year-old Major General Hugh J. Gaffey, who had been General Patton's Chief of Staff in Tunisia...