Word: marcus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oops. In Syracuse, N.Y., Chester D. Marcus held hands with Mary Stone at the movies, drew her arm a little closer, broke...
...open convertible. He looked at the limestone hills and green settlements with a soldier's eye. This hilltop, he would say, should be fortified; that gully would be ideal for a withdrawal if necessary. To strangers he was introduced as "Mr. Stone." His real name was David ("Mickey") Marcus, late of West Point, New York City and the U.S. Army...
Forty-seven-year-old Mickey Marcus had done well as soldier and lawyer. After the military academy and a spell with the regulars, he studied law, became a gang-busting assistant U.S. district attorney in Manhattan, later commissioner of correction in charge of New York City prisons...
...World War II, Marcus went back to the Army, won the Distinguished Service Medal for staff work. He was one of the first Americans to get a look at Dachau, where the Nazis had slaughtered thousands of his fellow Jews. Said he: "It made me fiercely interested in a Jewish state . . . where the Jews would not be a minority...
Last January Marcus was back in his law practice when Haganah asked him to help build an efficient Jewish army. Marcus consented. As chief planner he won the confidence of Palestine Jews by suggesting "we ought . . ." instead of "you must . . ." In April, he returned briefly to the U.S. on what he regarded as an ironic mission: to receive from the hand of British Ambassador Lord Inverchapel a decoration as Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for his work in World War II. Then he went back to Palestine...