[PW] Patton's Press Corps 1945

[S M Colowick]

Assuming that by "Press Corps" you mean the reporters that covered
him: Using an online database, ProQuest Historical Newspapers, I
learned that one reporter at Third Army Headquarters in Bavaria was
Raymond Daniell of The New York Times. Using this info, I searched
Google and found a book called The Patton Papers 1940-1945 that
mentions a press conference attended by Daniell and some others named
Levin, Morgan, Deane, and Tanya.

The book preview is too limited to get their last names from the
excerpt (though they should all be in the index), but searching on
those names I found another book that gives a better list: General
Patton: A Soldier's Life (page 661). Turns out that Ernest C. Deane
was the press officer, Edward P. Morgan was from the Chicago Daily
News, Carl Levin was from the New York Herald Tribune, and Tania was
Daniell's wife. There may be additional info elsewhere in that book.

So I disagree that online databases are inadequate.

smc

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Bob Boyce <r.boyce at mail.lcl.lib.ne.us> wrote:
>    Requests like this are, of course, just one evidence of why reliance on online databases (at least at present) are inadequate. They only go back 15-20 years...not 60.
>
>    Do you have old issues of Reader's Guide?????
>
>  Bob Boyce
>  Reference Department, Lincoln NE City Libraries
>  r.boyce at LincolnLibraries.org
>
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>  Subject: [PW] Patton's Press Corps 1945
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>  Hi all,
>  A patron came in earlier asking about General Patton's Press Corps in
>  Bavaria in 1945. She has a series of caricatures of the folks, but does
>  not know their names. Any pictures of the press corps, or a listing of its
>  members would be extremely helpful.
>  As a Public Librarian, I have been stymied by all search engines and our
>  free databases (General One/ Infotrac etc.)
>  Any hints would be greatly appreciated!!
>  Thanks,
>  Matt
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