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...topflight U.S. old soldiers who has all but faded from public view in military retirement, General of the Army George Catlett Marshall, 74, sorrowfully came back into sight for a little while...
Vacationing in Pinehurst, N.C., Britain's roving Lady Astor was entertained at the local country club by the city's foremost winter residents, General of the Army George Catlett Marshall and his wife Katherine. Ordinarily one of America's most caustic critics, Virginia-born Nancy Astor was on her best behavior, kept her temper during her frequent rounds of golf (handicap: 20), purred just like any sweet old (65) lady. Sample: "I've never known so many nice people as you've got here...
...Fritz Lipmann, Britain's Hans Adolf Krebs (both for medicine), Germany's Hermann Staudinger (chemistry), The Netherlands' Fritz Zernike and Britain's Sir Winston Churchill (literature), who was represented by his wife, Lady Churchill. In Oslo, Norway, the U.S.'s General George Catlett Marshall received the Nobel Peace Prize. As he rose, some Communist hecklers jeered, catcalled and sent a sheaf of propaganda leaflets flying from the balcony. Norway's 81-year-old King Haakon promptly jumped to his feet to lead a vigorous round of applause for the general that completely drowned...
Laid up with a virus infection at his winter home in Pinehurst. N.C.. General of the Armies George Catlett Marshall, 72, got some news better than any medicine. After 52 years of Nobel awards, five Norwegian politicians picked Old Soldier Marshall as the first professional military man ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The 1953 award (a tax-free $33.954) went to him for a civilian achievement: his prime-mover's role as author of the Marshall Plan, which has helped Western Europe's ravaged economies through postwar convalescence. At week's end Marshall flew...
...ranking pointer was Lieut. General George H. Decker, the Army's comptroller. On Sept. 27, 1950, said Decker, George Catlett Marshall (who had been Secretary of Defense for just six days) issued an order: "In preparation of budget estimates ... it will be assumed that . . . combat operations in Korea will be concluded by 30 June, 1951 . . ." From then on, the Defense Department always made its plans-for ammunition and everything else-on the assumption that the Korean war would be over within the fiscal year. During his term of office, Lovett reissued the Marshall directive with appropriate changes of dates...