Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Simple Concept. Looking back over the year, U.S.-citizens might wonder how their enlightenment had come about. Looking back, Old Soldier Marshall might wonder himself. It was a kaleidoscopic story of surprise, improvisation and counterattack. When he took over as Secretary of State, George Marshall, despite his attendance at wartime conferences, was no skilled diplomat. He had been sent to China as a special presidential envoy to bring peace between Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government and the Chinese Communists. He failed in his mission. He came back denouncing the Chinese Communists as "irreconcilable," the Nationalists as "reactionary...
George Marshall's admirable career began in Uniontown, Pa. 67 years ago. He was the son of a coal operator, and a collateral descendant of Chief Justice John Marshall. He grew up to go to Virginia Military Institute and become a soldier. He served in the Philippines, fought in France in World War I; as operations chief of the First Army, he won the commendations of his superiors for the way he moved half a million men into the Argonne offensive. General John J. Pershing called him the best officer in the U.S. Army...
Elizabeth Coles, his wife, to whom he had been married for 25 years, died in 1927, leaving him childless. He married a widow with three children-Katherine Boyce Tupper, the daughter of a minister. He performed a soldier's between-wars chores, teaching in officers' schools, doing routine military housekeeping, and, wherever he happened to be, cultivating the vegetable gardens which were his hobby. In 1937 he was in command of the sth Infantry Brigade at desolate Vancouver Barracks, Wash., when three Russian aviators startled the world by flying from Europe to America over the North Pole. They...
General Douglas MacArthur. . . . His superb transition from victorious soldier to Christian statesman stands as the one real and effective postwar "reconversion" in our shattered world...
...knotty Problem Drama. Will Daisy (Joan Crawford), a well-heeled but struggling commercial artist, pry dashing Dana Andrews loose from his rich, neurotic wife (Ruth Warrick)? Or do Dana's little daughters mean too much to him? Or will Joan marry Henry Fonda, a widower and ex-soldier so little in touch with this world that he even forgets to keep a date with...