Word: oss
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Died. Harold Albert Lamb, 69, gifted popularizer of history who chronicled the Oriental despots from Genghis Khan to Suleiman the Magnificent, a dedicated student of the Middle East who could read Turkish, Arabic and Persian and during World War II was a top OSS agent in the area, yet could also expand the three known facts about the life of Omar Khayyam into 316 pages of entertaining reading and turn out movie scripts (The Golden Horde, The Crusades) that delighted the heart of Cecil B. DeMille; of stomach cancer; in the Mayo Brothers' Clinic in Rochester, Minn...
Gardner, 49, a deceptively casual Californian who took his doctorate in psychol ogy at the University of California at Berkeley. A prewar teacher at Mount Holyoke, Gardner is himself an example of Carnegie foresight. The corporation spotted him when he was a Marine Corps captain assigned to the OSS, and by 1955 he was president. One of the few top "philanthropoids" to rise through foundation ranks, Gardner is also one of the few with a gift for words. Gardner chiefly drafted the Rockefeller Brothers Fund's famed The Pursuit of Excellence, followed it with his own thoughtful book, Excellence...
Early in October, Hughes, a lieutenant colonel in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, testified on behalf of Soblen at a hearing for a retrial. He contended that Soblen's alleged contacts in the OSS, Dr. Hans Hirschfeld and Horst Baerensprung, could not have had access to military secrets because they worked in the biographical records unit, which Hughes called the least secret part of the OSS...
...world knew as much about Africa as Dr. Wieschhoff. He earned a Ph.D. in African anthropology at Frankfurt, taught at the university's African Institute. He taught anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. During World War II he served as consultant on African affairs in the OSS. He wrote a number of scholarly books on African cultures and colonial policies...
...Better." Baxter meanwhile found time to serve as deputy director of the OSS in World War II. publish a Pulitzer prizewinning history (Scientists Against Time) in 1946, write much of the secret Gaither Committee report on U.S. defenses in 1957. He vice-chaired the American Council on Education, headed the Association of American Colleges and the boards of visitors of both Annapolis and West Point. Still able and willing, Baxter this year will be Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations in Manhattan, next year teach at Dartmouth, and eventually settle near Harvard, where he plans to write...