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...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...
...department of Latin American regional studies, Boston University has all but fallen over backwards trying to be fair. In the past few years, ex-Communist Nathaniel Weyl has accused Halperin of attending Communist meetings in 1936; and ex-Communist Courier Elizabeth Bentley has testified that Halperin, while in the OSS, passed secret documents to her to be sent on to Moscow. But when Halperin took refuge behind the Fifth Amendment before the Jenner Committee last March, the university refused to fire him. Reason for its decision: lack of "definite evidence." Not until Attorney General Herbert Brownell brought the Harry Dexter...
Cannibal Country. Explorer Clark was fresh from an OSS career in the Far East when he flew to Peru in 1946, in pursuit of a private postwar plan: he had heard of a man in Lima who had a treasure map. Sure enough, Clark found his man and paid him $100 for "a yellowed, badly cracked and very old Spanish parchment." From the little road's-end town of La Merced one July morning, accompanied by a Peruvian guide, he headed into the bush and six months of savagery...