Word: oss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside the palace as Regent, Pridi worked closely and dangerously with American OSS agents; he earned the wartime regard of U.S. Major General "Wild Bill" Donovan, now the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand. For five months in 1946, Pridi was Thailand's Premier. Forced into exile 15 months later, Pridi left Bangkok in a motor launch borrowed from a good friend in the U.S. embassy. But on arrival in Singapore, Pridi mysteriously disappeared; nothing was seen or heard of him for the next seven years...
...wife joined the Socialist Party in 1935; with eager energy they plunged into work for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, a bitter Socialist rival of the Communist-led Sharecroppers Union. Lorwin worked in several New Deal agencies until the war when he was an Army lieutenant assigned to the OSS. In 1946 he joined the State Department. Within two years State was checking security charges against...
...Oklahoma Cherokee vocabulary), learned Italian when he was World War II boss of Stars & Stripes's Mediterranean edition. Dean Brelis came to Rome equipped with Greek and fluent Kachin, a language which he learned in two years with Kachin tribesmen while operating behind the Japanese lines with an OSS detachment in Burma...
Henry Koerner came to the U.S. 16 years ago, a refugee from the Nazi pogroms in his native Vienna. He designed propaganda posters for the OWI and OSS during World War II, soon afterwards earned his present reputation as one of the nation's most thoughtful and skillful painters. His first fame rested on pictures just this side of surrealism: a barber treating a bearded customer to a violin concert, children sledding on tailors' dummies, a pregnant girl trapped in a jungle gym. What gave weight to their gloomy wit was the exactitude of Koerner's observation...
...Mark's School (Southboro, Mass.) was La-Rue Robbins Lutkins, who went on to graduate from Yale as a Phi Beta Kappa with honors in history. He joined the Foreign Service of the State Department as vice consul in Havana in 1942 (during the war served with the OSS in Africa), was then transferred to Peking, China in 1946. He is now with the American Embassy in Tokyo...