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...belonging to another tourist. The critic finds its lining contains ten-count 'em-ten $10,000 bills. To no one's surprise, the critic turns out to be a former foreign correspondent who can order breakfast in at least six foreign languages and-what else?-a onetime OSS man in World War II. In no time at all he is up to his tweed lapels in a fell and fancy plot to blame the U.S. for bribing some Frenchmen to kill General Charles de Gaulle. Could this chicanery be anything less than the last and most dastardly doing...
...does not hurt in Gary's current effort to shepherd through Congress the SEC's 3,000-page report calling for a thorough overhaul of the nation's securities markets. Publicity-shunning Gary's modest manner belies an inner toughness. A Marine major with the OSS in Yugoslavia during World War II, Gary once produced only a few wilted flowers for decorations at a dinner that his commanding officer was giving for Tito. Dressed down by his C.O., Gary snapped: "I'm no damned posy picker." He still...
...authentic article. He had gone to sea at 17, dory-trawling for haddock, hake and scrod from ramshackle schooners on the stormy Newfoundland banks. At 22 he was a master mariner. His first command was a brigantine, which he sailed to Tahiti. He spent the war as an OSS officer operating with the partisans in Yugoslavia rather than on the Warner Brothers lot. And periodically, to prove that he was sincere,-he ran away from Hollywood...
...reform fits the conservative principles of the state's self-styled education "reformer," Max Rafferty, the back-to-basics new superintendent of public instruction, but he had nothing to do with bringing it about. It is mainly the long-planned work of Tom Braden, 45, a wartime OSS-CIA man who went on to become an English professor at Dartmouth, his alma mater, and is now editor-publisher of the Blade-Tribune in Oceanside. Rafferty rooters recently flooded Sacramento in a vain effort to stop Braden's reappointment to the state board of education, apparently because Braden opposed...
...Paris-born Georges May packed away his new Sorbonne diploma, enlisted in the French army to fight invading Germans. In 1942 he slipped out of occupied France to North Africa, went to the U.S. and joined the OSS in Washington. By 1947, U.S. Citizen May had a doctorate from the University of Illinois and a teaching job at Yale, soon became a top scholar of 17th and 18th century French literature, wrote books on Racine, Diderot, Rousseau and others. A leader as well as a scholar, Professor May now runs Yale's Junior Year Abroad program, in 1961 became...