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...freelance gadgeteers. During World War II, the Kettering theory paid off handsomely. The Council received more than 200,000 notions. Most came from impractical dreamers, screwballs and ignorant well-wishers. But some 5,000 ideas were promising enough to be turned over to the armed services or the OSS. About 150 of these went into actual production; some 600 more are still in the testing stage. Some of the most successful: ¶The Army's portable mine detector, invented by a Miami electrician to help a neighbor find buried pirate gold. ¶A tank-driven mine detonator...
Cloak and Dagger--Gary Cooper's OSS drama, opening Thursday at the Paramount and Fenway...
Home from the war's last week came Wilbur A. Cowett '45, now a first leeey and ex-unit commander, who reminisced: "Schlesinger was making $10,000 a year as a civilian with OSS in London. Then they drafted him as a private, and he was assigned to my unit. I made him a corporal just before we parted." Cowett's future college record was a subject of much speculation last night...
Divorced. Madeleine Carroll, 40, onetime cinemactress, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor (for wartime Red Crossing); and Stirling Hayden, 30, seagoing cinemactor, wartime OSS operative; after four years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
...laude, landed a fellowship at Cambridge University, and came back to Harvard a Junior Fellow. His senior thesis on Orestes A. Brownson, a Transcendentalist who turned Catholic, was published when he was 21, sold only 2,500 copies. With the war he went to OWI in Washington, then to OSS in the ETO, ending up as a corporal in political intelligence...