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...Brigadier General Taylor became artillery commander of the Army's first airborne division, the 82nd, commanded by General Matt Ridgway. He soon found that it was his kind of outfit. "I don't like to jump," Taylor once confessed frankly, "but I like to be with people who like to jump." Taylor went into action with the 82nd in Africa and Sicily, soon earned a reputation as a tough, resourceful officer and was singled out for one of the most dramatic cloak-and-dagger missions...
...17th anniversary of its D-day liberation from the Nazis, the Norman village of Sainte-Mère-Eglise had a distinguished visitor: U.S. Ambassador to France James Gavin, better known locally as deputy commander of Matt Ridgway's hard-nosed 82nd Airborne Division, which liberated the little town of 1,261 to screen the Allied beachhead during the Normandy landings of 1944. Said the ambassador as he clambered out of his official Cadillac last week for a nostalgic slog toward the sea: "I wouldn't have recognized anything in a car. Last time I used this road...
...gracefully gesturing hands Bishop Sheen, the aquiline nose, strong chin and steely blue eyes a Marshal Matt Dillon...
...over your grades with Dr. Pusey, and I'll protect your interests." In a few hours he was off to New York, and the morning after, to Washington for conferences. Arriving in Palm Beach with his brother-in-law Peter Lawford and Democratic National Committee Moneybags Matt McCloskey, Kennedy bored into the myriad details that he had to get out of the way by Jan. 20: more conferences, more reports, more telephone calls, more conferences...
...producers of the 1961 extravaganza will be Sinatra and Lawford. The idea for the big show came from Philadelphia Contractor Matt McCloskey, the Democratic Party's national treasurer. "Frankie's an old friend of mine," explained McCloskey. "He told me, 'Matt, if you want me to do this thing, I'll get you all the talent you want.' " Frankie was as good as his word, thereupon unreeled a cast of characters that would stretch from Mocambo to Vegas. It includes Clansmen and Clans-women Dean Martin, Judy Garland, Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Curtis, Shirley...