Word: codman
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...that of George C. Scott. The officer, real in history, a vivid and powerful coherence, a life proceeding through time toward a death, becomes someone else. The writer Cleveland Amory has reported taking his father, who knew Patton well, to see the movie. When the general's aide, Charles Codman, was introduced on the screen, Amory's father protested, "It isn't Coddie." Amory whispered that it was not meant to be Coddie, it was just an actor playing Coddie. But Amory's father insisted, "If they could get Georgie, they could certainly have got Coddie...