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George Smith Patton Jr. was born on 11 November 1885, [1] [2] in the Los Angeles suburb of San Gabriel, California, to George S. Patton and his wife, Ruth Wilson, the daughter of Benjamin Davis Wilson, the second mayor of Los Angeles, and Margaret Hereford, a widow from Virginia. [3]
[5] [6] In the 1930s and 1940s, as jazz and swing music were gaining popularity, it was the more commercially successful white artists Paul Whiteman and Benny Goodman who became known as "the King of Jazz" and "the King of Swing" respectively, despite there being more highly regarded contemporary African-American artists.
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Willie was sent to live with Patton's family as the beloved dog of a fallen warrior. [13] He died in 1955, outliving both Patton and his wife. He is buried in an unmarked grave by a stone wall on Patton's property, which is still owned by the Patton family. [14] [4] In 1970, Willie was portrayed in several scenes in Patton's biographical movie ...
Patton is a 1970 American epic biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II.It stars George C. Scott as Patton and Karl Malden as General Omar Bradley, and was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a script by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North, who based their screenplay on Patton: Ordeal and Triumph by Ladislas Farago and Bradley's memoir, A Soldier's ...
From left to right: Hal Block, Bob Hope, Barney Dean, General George S. Patton, Langford, and Tony Romano in Sicily in August 1943, just three days after Messina had been secured From 1941, Langford was a regular singer on Bob Hope 's The Pepsodent Show [ 5 ] when he held his first military entertainment program at March Field in Riverside ...
Described by Consequence as having "mathy rhythm section and a searing breakdown", "Welcome to Hell" is a rock song with avant-garde and progressive elements, and an outro reminiscent of thrash metal. [3] Frontman Geordie Greep explained in an interview the perspective of the song's narrative [4] being inspired by George S. Patton:
George Grizzard (Upsilon) – actor, won Tony Award in 1996; Taylor Hackford (Beta Sigma) – film director, won Oscar in 1979; George Hamilton IV (Upsilon) – country music singer; Rob Huebel (Delta Omicron) – comedian and actor; Adam Johnson (Epsilon Omega) [citation needed] – writer, 2013 fiction Pulitzer Prize