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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 On the condition that his biography would not be published during his lifetime, Marshall gave 52 hours of interviews to a nonprofit foundation created for the sole purpose of documenting the remarkable career of the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...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A biography of the late General George Catlett Marshall. Repeat...
Next, while the 77-year-old widow of George Catlett Marshall strained to hear from her front-row seat, came a passage from the 1947 Harvard speech in which the soldier-statesman proposed the Marshall Plan of postwar aid: "Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos." For his third offering, March had planned to read Ernest Hemingway's short story, The Killers. But as tribute to World War II PT-boat Hero Kennedy, Widow Mary Hemingway had dug through a bank vault of her husband's unpublished manuscripts...