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...such a change Lieut. General Jacob L. Devers, Chief of the U.S. Armored Force, like any other sound soldier, sees no reflection on his tanks, only the result of the ebb & flow of battle doctrine. Said he: "While capable of smashing through the severest obstacle, [the armored division's] most important use is against vital enemy rear areas . . . air, armor, artillery and infantry must be properly combined and their individual capabilities exploited. ... The tank, like the battleship and the airplane, is merely a means of carrying fire power to the enemy...
Chaplain William D. Veazie was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and Chaplains Leland B. Henry, Jacob W. Mason, and Ellwood C. Nance were made Captains. Henry was recently awarded the Purple Heart. The four men are all members of Colonel Cleary's staff...
After eight years of marriage, much of it in absentia, plum-shaped John Jacob Astor III's pretty wife Ellen was in Reno. Married the year that his coming-of-age netted him an inheritance of some $10 million, she was to have been bridesmaid at his wedding to another girl, who had jilted him. With the divorce, said Astor's secretary, the boss's wife would get half-custody of seven-year-old William Henry, a $1 million settlement...
...There was an entry concerning it in the diary of one of the travelers, Patrick Breen: "Mrs. Murphy said here yesterday that [she] thought she would commence on Milt and eat him." She had. At the Donner family huts, Tamsen Donner had just sent a man to beg Elizabeth, Jacob Donner's wife, for a meal. The man was just returning with a leg of Elizabeth's husband. "At the sight of the rescuers, he tossed the now unneeded leg back on the butchered corpse." Jacob Donner's children "were sitting upon a log, with their faces...
Stressing the importance of American leadership in the post-war world, Jacob Anton De Hans, William Ziegler Professor of International Relationships, addressed a tea given last Saturday by the Netherlands Club...