World War II Chronicle: December 18, 1943
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In the Southwest Pacific Theater, Sixth Army is consolidating their gains four days after landing on New Britain… Page five reports that America’s oldest person, a 122-year-old colored man named Mark Thrash, has passed away. “Uncle Mark” claims to have been born in 1820 and was a slave in Georgia. He was quite a storyteller and would tell visitors to his cabin in the Chickamauga Battlefield that he was twice captured by Federal troops, served both Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant, and met Abraham Lincoln. Whether or not that was true we will never know but he was alive for all of America’s presidents apart from George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison…
George Fielding Eliot column on page six… Sports on page 10, which previews the upcoming playoff game between the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins. The clubs finished the season tied for first, and the winner will play the Chicago Bears in the NFL title game… Grantland Rice talks about the playoff game on the bottom of page ten.
Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 18 December 1943. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
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