Personal Problems
Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr. ended whispered speculation among his subordinates by explaining the mystery of the doughnut-shaped cushion he carried through the Battle of the Bulge. While the General stood, it circled his arm; when he sat, it was under him. The burning question was: had hard-riding old Georgie Patton finally gone soft? The explanation: on the night Rundstedt attacked, the General took a fall in his blacked-out headquarters, bruised his coccyx.
Adolf Hitler, whose rumored afflictions range from cerebral hemorrhage to an abnormal taste for cutting rugs with his bicuspids, was reported by the Stockholm Morgon-Tidningen to have...
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