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...Philip Jaffe. The case began that February when the eyes of a Government official fell upon a surprising Amerasia article. It quoted at length and almost verbatim from a secret report which was supposed to be tucked safely away in the Office of Strategic Services' file. The OSS immediately put a special investigator, Frank Brooks Bielaski, on Amerasia's pink and wispy trail...
Chunky, spectacled Frank Bielaski, an ex-Wall Street broker turned Government secret agent, had handled many cases for OSS during the war. One midnight, tracing down the document quoted in Amerasia, Bielaski and four aides let themselves into a dark, empty building at 225 Fifth Avenue. They took an elevator to the eleventh floor and there, by what Bielaski later called "deceit and subterfuge," entered Amerasia's office. Once inside, they began a careful inspection. They found one room fitted out with photocopy equipment, a desk in another room spread with copies of Government documents. Behind a door were...
Using popular front-tactics, Ho established the Viet Minh-League for the Independence of Viet Nam. It directed guerrilla war against both Vichy French and Japanese, enlisted the support of many Indo-Chinese nationalists. American OSS agents and arms were parachuted to Ho's side...
...Arnie Oss, Dartmouth right wing, was the only unanimous choice to the first term. Oss broke a league record by scoring five goals in single games twice, once against the Crimson. Two other Dartmouth players, defenseman Bob Gray and center Cliff Harrison, with goalie Don Whiston and forward Warren Priestley, both of Brown, complete the first team...
...Oss won the award for the outstanding player in the Pentagonal League, consisting of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, and Brown, and Gray was named the top defenseman...