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Article: JIMMY STEWART 1908 - 1997 ``DECENT, HARD-WORKING GUY'' BECAME A MOVIE LEGEND WHILE EXEMPLIFYING WHAT AMERICA IS ALL ABOUT.(DAILY BREAK)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- July 5, 1997
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Byline: MAL VINCENT, ENTERTAINMENT WRITER
WHEN ASKED how he wanted to be remembered, Jimmy Stewart once said, ``As a decent, hard-working guy who loved his family, his community, his country and his God.''
James Maitland Stewart achieved his goal.
To generations around the world he will be remembered as the epitome of the decent American - the stammering ``gee whiz,'' ``aw shucks'' kind of give-you-the-shirt-off-his back guy who best suggests what America once was, and always aspired to be.
He was extraordinarily ordinary.
He was unusually usual.
He was the small-town Americana whom we hear so little about nowadays. ...