Word: catlett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Burden of Reconstruction. It was in the course of a Harvard Commencement Day address by then Secretary of State George Catlett Marshall that the plan was officially born. "I need not tell you gentlemen that the world situation is very serious," began Marshall in his precise, low-key style. "The truth of the matter is that Europe's requirements for foreign food and other essential products-principally from America -are so much greater than her present ability to pay that she must have substantial additional help or face economic, social and political deterioration...
Among the band's members are some authentic jazz virtuosos. Sonny Payne is the grooviest of the big-band drummers-to watch, if not to listen to. Alto Saxophonist Marshall Royal, Trumpeter Snooky Young and Guitarist Freddy Green are all heartfelt blues soloists. Bassist Buddy Catlett, the band's newest member, gives the whole orchestra a subtle and highly advanced sense of rhythm. Keenly aware of all these virtues, Basie never lets his audience get a glimmer of the solemn musicianship behind them. "Now a little foot-pattin' music," he announces happily. Then he sits down...
Once, when George Catlett Marshall was offered $1,000,000 to write his autobiography, he stiffly replied: "The Government of the United States has already paid me for my services." Three years before he died in 1959, the soldier-statesman agreed to tell his story for nothing. On the condition that his biography would not be published during his lifetime, Marshall gave 52 hours of interviews to a nonprofit foundation created for the sole purpose of documenting the remarkable career of the boy from Uniontown, Pa., who grew up to command more than 8,000,000 men in World...
Married. Francis Gary Powers, 34, U-2 pilot downed over Russia in May 1960, now a test pilot for Lockheed Aircraft Corp.; and Claudia Edwards Downey, 28, CIA psychologist; both for the second time; in Catlett...
...American not long ago. "Oh, yes. Wonderful of your government to send the lads over. Fine gesture." It is quite the other way around: the British government established Marshall Scholarships just ten years ago as a gesture to the U.S., naming them for the late General George Catlett Marshall, who inspired the postwar plan of U.S. aid to Europe...