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Since 1939 Graebner has been chief of the TIME and LIFE London Bureauקargest maintained by any U.S. publisher in England. He ran the office all through the Battle of Britain—the toughest six months of news coverage any TIME man has ever known. He still can't figure out why he wasn't killed when a loaded Junkers bomber crashed almost on his doorstep; the terrific explosion blew his housekeeper from one room right through the door into another, bashed in the whole house. After that Graebner slept in the office-beside his desk on nights when...
Information Bureau Formed...
Early in the year, the Defense Information Bureau, later changed to the War Service Information Bureau, was established in University Hall and Law Professor A. James Casner placed at its head...
Closing the year came the award of honorary degrees to the country's fight for freedom, and the graduation of another Harvard class, trained to step into its place in a nation at war.ELLIOTT PERKINS '23 took over the chairmanship of the important war service information Bureau, central office of student inquiries about opportunities for usefulness in the war effort. He replaced A. James Casner, now a major in the Army intelligence, last June...
Civilian Defense and Red Cross offices in Boston and Cambridge are short of clerical help, and can use typists, stenographers, and stamp-lickers too. Clerical help is also needed inside the University, in the War Service Information Bureau, and other offices...