People: People, Jan. 8, 1945

Fighting Folk

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek made the biggest New Year's resolution of them all, promised his people constitutional government, not within a year after the end of hostilities, but before the war's end.

General George Catlett Marshall took time out from military affairs to purchase 17-year-old, nine-room Liscombe Lodge in Pinehurst, N.C., planned to spend his winters there after the war (see below).

General Peyton Conway March, wrinkled, spade-bearded, soldier-straight, World War I U.S. Chief of Staff, who said on his 79th birthday last year that an Allied victory in Europe in 1944 was "not in the cards," reached 80 and sounded off again....

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