Word: leesburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Experiment. George Marshall had just donned the mufti of retirement when the call came from Washington for one more great task. One day last November he was at his Leesburg (Va.) farm, where he takes a countryman's joy in pruning trees, growing sweet corn and keeping compost pits. President Truman, troubled and hard-pressed by the explosive resignation of Ambassador Pat Hurley, was on the wire. Would the General postpone his well-earned rest to do an emergency job in China? With a sigh, the General looked at his half-unpacked bags. Ten days later...
...hale in the morning. But his aides think enough of his evening rest (reading, movies, occasional dinners out with Mrs. Marshall) to see that he is disturbed only in extreme emergency. Last summer the General spent his free Saturday nights and Sundays at his country place near Leesburg, Va. An Army messenger, arriving importantly with a vital dispatch, found the Chief of Staff up a tree, pruning the limbs...
Married. Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, 39, White House counselor; and Peggy Dowd, 27, his attractive, redhaired, hard-working secretary; suddenly, in Leesburg...