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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oldtimer. In Franklin County, Ohio, George Washington got a divorce from his wife Martha...
Family Ties. In Peiping, China, 1) Wang Leihsiang had her mother arrested as an opium smoker; 2) her sister accused her brother's wife of adultery; 3) the brother's wife killed the two sisters with an ax, hanged herself, left a note explaining to her husband that she had planned on killing...
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...
Katherine Tupper Marshall, who wrote a book (Together; Annals of an Army Wife) about life with George Marshall, recalled that the flyers had nothing but their thick fur parkas to wear at receptions. Marshall ordered civilian suits for them and "they appeared, immaculate in dark business suits . . . delighted by the double-breasted cut of the coats...
...public saw him as a reserved, almost gentle man who quietly repelled intimacy; even first-naming Franklin Roosevelt invariably called him "General." One day in 1944, he had to tell his wife that her son had been killed in Italy...