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...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...
...temper of Chairman Cary, 50, a Yaleman ('31) and onetime (1938-40) SEC counsel, who was plucked from his job as a Columbia law professor by President Kennedy last February to head the SEC. A Phi Beta Kappa with a staunch New Deal background, Cary served with the OSS in Rumania and Yugoslavia during World War II. No stranger to the Wall Street whirl, he worked part time during his Columbia days as special counsel to a Wall Street law firm...
During World War II, he joined the OSS, helped nail the famous Nazi spy, "Cicero" (who was memorialized in the movie Five Fingers). In 1950 "Beedle" Smith called Dulles to Washington for what was supposed to be a six-months' tour of duty. He never left...
...first, Goldberg was a young corporation lawyer, but after representing the Newspaper Guild in a strike against Hearst in 1938, he became a labor specialist. (During the war he served with distinction as the OSS contact with Europe's underground labor movement.) In 1948 Goldberg committed himself to the labor movement when the late Phil Murray made him general counsel of the Steelworkers' union. At the wedding of the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. in 1955, he was one of the main marriage brokers. Since then, he has become special counsel (and ex officio policy adviser) to the A.F.L...