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...soldier-statesman agreed to tell his story for nothing. On the condition that his biography would not be published during his lifetime, Marshall gave 52 hours of interviews to a nonprofit foundation created for the sole purpose of documenting the remarkable career of the boy from Uniontown, Pa., who grew up to command more than 8,000,000 men in World...
...forget the crowd and the noise, and it is just you against somebody else to see who is the better man." Even in grade school, Ernie could always run faster and throw harder and kick farther than anybody else who booted scuffed old footballs around the sooty playgrounds of Uniontown, Pa. He was the product of poverty and a broken home, a shy, sensitive boy who dreamed of playing halfback for Notre Dame. His heroes were men like Stan Musial and Johnny Lujack, whose special skills at swinging a bat or throwing a ball had rescued them from the steel...
...September 1897, a gawky, 16-year-old youngster from Uniontown, Pa. entered, the tradition-hallowed halls of Virginia Military Institute. "Flicker" Marshall, shy, freckle-faced and bewildered, was quickly the biggest dunce among the rats (freshmen). Yet, bitten by V.M.I.'s tradition and by a proper reverence for the exploits of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, V.M.I.'s most illustrious professor (whose statue still rates a salute from passing cadets), George Marshall wanted above all to be a soldier...
Slot Luck. In Uniontown, Pa., Mrs. Ann Pratt testified during an inquiry into "for amusement only" pinball machines, that she had once spent five hours and $110 trying to get back $25, was still determined to keep playing until she won back the $3,000 she had lost over the past four years...
...night at Gorley's Lake Hotel. All four bars were going full blast, and some 500 revelers milled happily about the ivy-grown Allegheny Mountain resort near Uniontown, Pa. Some of them went in for a moonlight dip from the concrete bathing pavilion, and it was 4 a.m. before things quieted down; the management even set up a few drinks on the house all around-a flagrant violation of Pennsylvania liquor laws. But the 34-year-old hotel would not be needing its liquor license any more. It had been sold -lake, bars and all-to an obscure religious...