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...Office of Strategic Services was producing propaganda material to be beamed across the battlefronts into Nazi Germany in 1942, but suspected its Hooper rating was low. In casting about for some way to lure more listeners to their radios, OSS remembered Marlene Dietrich. Her voice was far from the greatest in the world, but it had a haunting huskiness that Germans could well remember from such early Dietrich movies as The Blue Angel and from dozens of records (Jonny, Mein Blondes Baby, etc.). Actress Dietrich agreed. OSS picked familiar pop tunes and gave them brand-new German lyrics; Dietrich...
...Unità took another beating last week from another American, Michael Stern, Rome correspondent for Fawcett Publications (True, True Confessions). Ten months ago, Stern wrote a sensational story for True that two former American OSS men had killed their superior officer, Major William Holohan, in 1944 in Italy, to help Communist partisans (TIME, Aug. 27). L'Unità fired back at Stern's charges against the Reds: Stern is a "false journalist" who is really acting as a spy for the U.S. State Department...
...politicians) as Leontief himself. It is time to make a science of economics," he says. Economists have wasted too much time trying to advice like lawyers." He shuns Washington (he commuted bi-weekly from Boston during the war, when he was Chief of Russian Economic Sub-division of OSS), where "everyone is political." Their minds are trained to ask always, 'How to do it?' I am interested only to answer, How does it work?'" Nevertheless, he readily admits that the argument of his critics has some foundation: "No doubt, if you do want to control something, it helps to understand...
...northwest, Red machinations of this sort apparently brought about the death of Major William Holohan, American OSS officer (TIME, Aug. 27). In the northeast, around Udine in the province of Friuli, the Communist Garibaldi brigade and the non-Communist Osoppo brigade had been fighting as one division. The Osoppos were commanded by a tough regular army officer named Francesco de Gregori, whose nom de guerre was Bolla ("Bubble"). In the autumn of 1944 Bolla discovered that the Garibaldis were playing footie with Yugoslav Communists, and were more interested in grabbing chunks of Italian territory for Tito than fighting the common...
...World War I. While in private law practice, served a term in the Maryland legislature. Foreign Service officer, 1925-27. Spent next dozen years running his 4,000-acre estate in Virginia, sitting on a score of corporation boards, serving in Virginia legislature. During World War II, Bruce directed OSS operations in Europe. He was appointed Assistant Secretary of Commerce in 1947. In 1948, he became chief of the EGA mission to France. Since April 1949, Bruce has been U.S. Ambassador to France...