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...morning of March 7, dark, handsome, Missouri-born Brigadier General William M. Hoge got the order: it was much to his liking. Getting across rivers was one of his specialties. His Distinguished Service Cross testified to his part in bridging the Meuse under fire in World War I's decisive offensive...
...General Hoge's outfit was to come up to the Rhine near Remagen. In that area he hoped to find favorable points for future bridging. There had been no information for two weeks about Remagen's double-tracked railroad bridge, which air reconnaissance had last reported damaged, but still...
...first General Hoge's men met spotty opposition, then almost none. They picked up speed, rumbling through the Eifel hills. 'By late afternoon they sighted Remagen through a break in the hills, the four towers of its Apollinariskirche glistening in the drizzle. Beyond the church was Remagen's 400-yard-long, three-span bridge. The bridge still stood, but that was hardly worth remarking: the Germans usually waited until the last moment...
...Blish, Yale graduate (1927) and onetime man about Manhattan, Nathan Kaplan from the Bloomington (Ind.) Evening World, Photographer Edward Andros, who used to run a portrait studio in Mishawaka, Ind., and Private Grover Page Jr., son of the Louisville Courier-Journal's famed cartoonist. Public Relations Lieut. Peyton Hoge conceived the paper's slant and the division commander, Major General H. L. C. Jones., tolerated...
...Engineer MacDonald, a great road builder and visionary, all credit for his longtime dream of a U.S. Alaska highway. But MacDonald bitterly protested against the route picked for the Hoge highway, fought for a route nearer the coast. TIME doubts that Engineer MacDonald would belittle General Hoge's part in making the dream of an Alaska highway come true at last...