Word: oss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supplied another eight. Caught up in the cultural invasion, armchair wayfarers could head out with Wagon Train or Highway Patrol. With tea they got Annie Oakley, Mickey Mouse, Popeye; with cocktails it was Lucille Ball in Lucy or Ann (Private Secretary) Sothern; with the bedtime mild-and-bitter came OSS, or Lee Marvin's M Squad. On commercial channels in the south, Midlands, and north, screens flashed with Wild Bill Hickok, Lassie. Joe Friday, Martin Kane or Flash Gordon...
...Union, Glueck spends more time as archaeologist than as minister, has roamed the Holy Land for 30 years. During World War II he was director of the American School of Oriental Research at Jerusalem -a "perfect cover," says Glueck, for his real job: boss of the cloak-and-dagger OSS in Transjordan. After the war, he set out to explore the Negev, each year since 1950 has gone deep into the wasteland...
...teach and to do research work on the origins of chemical reactions. As chief of the explosives division of the National Defense Research Committee in World War II, he organized and ran a 600-man explosives laboratory in Bruceton, Pa. Once Kistiakowsky got a rush assignment from the OSS: the allies needed an explosive that could be used for sabotage work in Europe and the Far East; it had to be easy to carry, innocent in appearance. Kistiakowsky's imaginative product was an explosive that looked like flour. Dubbed "Aunt Jemima," the powder could be transported as flour...
...last three OSS men in Germany when the group was disbanded, Ford had his most interesting experience after V-E Day. In line with his work on political reorganization, he sat in on interviews with captured generals. His closest contact was with General Guderian, whose mind he characterizes as "naive politically, but brilliant and retentive." The former chief of the German General Staff provided for the trial of his colleagues...
Recalling his OSS work, Ford says that "until I'd had this experience, I'd never thought of coming to Harvard." Discharged in March, 1946, he entered the GSAS in the fall. Even today he jokes about the "danger that OSS would begin to look like a Harvard colony...