Word: oss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reels for a new "adult" horse opera called Sugar-foot to alternate with Cheyenne, and another called Maverick (with new Cowboy James Garner) to oppose the Allen-Sullivan powerhouse Sunday nights. Reliable old Character Actor Walter Brennan stars in a folksy situation comedy called The Real McCoys, and OSS will chronicle the World War II cloak-and-dagger exploits of General "Wild Bill" Donovan's men. ABC will offer top pro golfers-Gary Middlecoff, Sam Snead, et al.-up to $52,000 to tee off on its new All-Star Golf series, TV's first stroke-by-stroke...
...counterspy. Jane and George Zlatovski were helpful spies for the Soble-Morros combine. In Hitchcock-trimmed meetings both in the U.S. and a dozen European cities-including Moscow-the Zlatovskis turned over a file-load of valuable information that eventually dropped into Russian hands, said the indictment. Using OSS information, Jane (code name: "Slang") wrote an incisive report on Indonesia as well as dossiers on U.S. intelligence agents...
Thanks to these findings, the body was identified as that of Major William V. Holohan, 40, the OSS agent who had mysteriously disappeared during a mission far behind the enemy lines in December 1944.* What fascinated Pathologist Lentino, as he now reports in the A.M.A. Journal, was the amazing state of preservation of the internal organs. As his trained eye looked at the organs, though they were six years dead, it was simple for him to identify instantly the stomach and heart, liver and spleen. But when he took specimens of them for laboratory examination, the microscope showed that...
...Other members: World War II OSS Director William J. Donovan, former Veterans Administration Medical Director Paul R. Hawley, Standard Oil Co. of California President Theodore S. Petersen, Clarence Adamy, assistant campaign director for the Republican National Committee, Morgan State College (Baltimore) President Martin D. Jenkins and John S. Thompson, vice chairman of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance...
...brutal story of treachery unfolded at the trial. Strasserra was an authentic hero of the resistance, with an unimpeachably anti-Fascist record. Trained by the OSS at Bari, he and an aide were slipped into Genoa in mid-1944 to report German troop movements and to establish liaison with resistance groups. When he lost his radio in a Gestapo raid, he and his companion lit out for the hills. He found Devil Moranino, and assuming him to be a fellow patriot and partisan, asked Moranino to get him to Switzerland, where he would be able to re-establish contact with...