Sublime

“Conner had long had his eyes on Marshall.”47 On July 13, 1918, George Marshall reported for duty in Conner’s Operations Section. Marshall faced an adjustment to what he termed the “strange atmosphere” of Chaumont. As his new colleagues discussed the broad details of planning an army of millions, Marshall found himself in a “different world” from d

Perhaps Marshall’s most striking habit was his insistence on leaving the office each day at 5:30 p.m. In an age before cell phones and email, Marshall didn’t put in a second shift late into the night once he got home. Having experienced burnout earlier in his career, he felt it was important to relax in the evening. “A man who worked himself to tat

completely devoid of them. Hopefully, this was just part of the process, the way cleaning a house often makes it messier first. For the rest of the drive back to his apartment in Marina del Rey, Ross harangued me about his rivals. Of course, Ross’s detractors weren’t any kinder to him. They had recently nicknamed him Mine ’99, claiming that wheneve

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