Word: oss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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World War II produced few such chilling mystery tales as the case of OSS Major William V. Holohan-the big, brusque U.S. reserve officer who was killed by his own men in 1944 amid an atmosphere of partisan intrigue behind the German lines in Italy. Few crimes have been so well documented. But last week it became virtually certain that the murder of Major Holohan will forever remain a Completely unpunishable crime...
...Office of Strategic Services was producing propaganda material to be beamed across the battlefronts into Nazi Germany in 1942, but suspected its Hooper rating was low. In casting about for some way to lure more listeners to their radios, OSS remembered Marlene Dietrich. Her voice was far from the greatest in the world, but it had a haunting huskiness that Germans could well remember from such early Dietrich movies as The Blue Angel and from dozens of records (Jonny, Mein Blondes Baby, etc.). Actress Dietrich agreed. OSS picked familiar pop tunes and gave them brand-new German lyrics; Dietrich...
...Since OSS was probing for the Weltschmerz in the German soul, the bouncy original lyrics were worked over until the death-wish showed through. Time on My Hands originally saw "nothing but love in view"; Marlene's version points out darkly that "the end has to come sooner or later." Taking a Chance on Love, once a devil-may-care ditty, pictures a cross standing "in the evening gold," marking the end of life and love. Translated excerpt (a German soldier speaking...
...Unità took another beating last week from another American, Michael Stern, Rome correspondent for Fawcett Publications (True, True Confessions). Ten months ago, Stern wrote a sensational story for True that two former American OSS men had killed their superior officer, Major William Holohan, in 1944 in Italy, to help Communist partisans (TIME, Aug. 27). L'Unità fired back at Stern's charges against the Reds: Stern is a "false journalist" who is really acting as a spy for the U.S. State Department...
...politicians) as Leontief himself. It is time to make a science of economics," he says. Economists have wasted too much time trying to advice like lawyers." He shuns Washington (he commuted bi-weekly from Boston during the war, when he was Chief of Russian Economic Sub-division of OSS), where "everyone is political." Their minds are trained to ask always, 'How to do it?' I am interested only to answer, How does it work?'" Nevertheless, he readily admits that the argument of his critics has some foundation: "No doubt, if you do want to control something, it helps to understand...