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Tower of Strength Beneath a hot Virginia sun one day last week, Defense Secretary George Catlett Marshall stepped to the front of the speakers' platform to receive a tribute it had taken him 50 years to earn. Virginia Military Institute had turned out in full regalia to do him honor as its most famous living alumnus...
There were speakers, a medal from the state of Virginia and a full-dress parade by V.M.I.'s 770 cadets, resplendent in black shakos, grey tailcoats and white ducks. Then Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch rose to dedicate the George Catlett Marshall Arch, a new sally port leading into the new quadrangle at the center of the V.M.I. post...
Just what did George Catlett Marshall consider the Korean business anyway, asked Washington's Harry Cain, "a police action ... a large or a small...
Tomorrow night is time for the weekly jam sessions on Second Avenue. The Stuyvesant Casino at 9th Street and the Central Plaza at 6th gather such artists as Max Kaminsky, Red Allen, Sid Catlett, Buster Bailey, Bud Freeman, James P. Johnson, George Wettling, Joe Sullivan, and whoever else of note is in New York and has time to spare...
...throw millions of men into uniform without enough weapons to fight with or enough men to train them; to do so would also disturb the production of war goods by robbing defense plants of men before the plants were in shape to replace them. One of General George Catlett Marshall's convictions is that all-out mobilization should be ordered only at the certain prospect of war, and he is not yet convinced that war is inevitable. He often speaks of the disastrous reaction that would set in among trained but idle troops if a great buildup...