Recognizing The Recognitions

[Erik T. Burns]

That's General Box, not to be confused with General Roll, which is the Bast
family company for player piano rolls.

Of course the company PR tool Davidoff says Box is "the famous armored
division commander who stopped the whole German army in the big winter
Ardennes..." (p.91 of _J R_)

no way to check if that's true, of course. after all, it's Davidoff...



On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:56 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> if memory serves there is mention of a dumbell general in JR who
> botched things during the Bulge(I think) and of course got famously
> promoted and is now (big surprise) a director of a major corporation
>
> rich
>
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>
> wrote:
> > Erik T. Burns sez:
> >
> >> and just in case you need more connective tissue linking WG and TRP,
> > according to the WUSTL documentation, William Gaddis was the writer for a
> > film produced by Hunter Low for the US Army in 1965, called "The Battle
> of
> > St Vith."...
> >> PART I <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tdy_O81rLw>
> >> PART II <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JozuB1NFtg>
> >
> > I thought I'd glance at this and ended up pulled into the whole thing.
> It's
> > very well written (duhhh), and not just at the sentence level. it does
> more
> > to convey the changing tactical logic of the situation than 98% of
> > documentaries about war.
> >
> > Because so many forces on both sides were funneling through a limited
> road
> > network, St. Vith had one- and two-star generals on *both* sides standing
> at
> > intersections, personally directing traffic. No fun being a cold tired
> > infantryman, but at least that must have been entertaining as you slogged
> > by.
> >
> >
>
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