George Purifoy Remembers Marilyn in Korea

First posted here on November 29, 2015 86 year-old George Purifoy of Franklin Park, Illinois, has shared his memory of meeting Marilyn during her 1954 USO tour of Korea with TribLive News. “It’s 10 a.m., and the breakfast club of old friends meets at a Panera Bread restaurant in the North Hills. They come daily,...

When Marilyn Touched Down in Illinois

First posted here on December 23, 2013 A rare photo of Marilyn en route to Bement in 1955 has been posted at The News-Gazette today. She was invited to the small rural town where her hero, Abraham Lincoln - then a lawyer, and just three years later, America's first Republican president - stayed at the...