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...covers events like Bernarr Macfadden's stand-on-your-head religion, Cosmotari-anism. Reported Wilson: "They got mat burns at last Sunday's sermon. . . ." He interviewed Polish Tenor Jan Kiepura after the critics panned his new show, and reported it, in pure Kiepurese: "The public love oss. They dizagree with the critics. The onjost critics hurts only wahn person-his poblisher and himself!" Wilson showed a flair for punch leads: "John Steinbeck said what the hell, he'd see me." He asked tart old H. L. Mencken at the Stork Club why he lived in Baltimore. Replied...
Members of the staff who have already resumed their teaching chores are: C. Crane Brinton '19, professor of History, who served in both the Washington and London branches of OSS; Sterling Dow '25, associate professor of History, who spent six months in Italy and some time in Washington with the OSS.FRANCIS THOW SPAULDING '16, dean of the Graduate School of Education, will return to Cambridge tomorrow for a conference with other members of the School prior to leaving for another overseas jaunt. Director of the U. S. Armed Forces Institute, which has given correspondence courses to G. l.s during...
...puppet independence, thirsted for more. In the forlorn hope of escaping renewed colonial rule, they went on a rousing rampage. In Saigon they shot up homes, burned the market, seized Frenchmen as hostages. On roads out of town, they ambushed every foreign party that came along. An American OSS officer, Lieut. Colonel A. Peter Dewey, was shot dead (the Annamites mistook his jeep for a French car), another U.S. officer was wounded in a hell-for-leather battle...
When Franklin Roosevelt made him "Coordinator of Information" in the summer of 1941, Donovan started building a task force whose real size, strength and most private deeds are still secret. OSS, born the next year, went underground, tiptoed through the war. It held no press conferences, issued no handouts, made no reply to gibes that OSS meant "O So Secret," "O So Social...
Cloak & Dagger. But last month, fretting lest OSS land in the postwar dustbin with other wartime agencies, Wild Bill threw aside its cloak and gave the U.S. a glimpse of the dagger. In daily press releases OSS (sounding a little like one unaccustomed to public speaking) told some of its exploits. OSS men had wormed their way into Gestapo schools. Others had infiltrated Siam to turn Bangkok into an Allied listening post. They had manned a mosquito fleet running munitions and information to the Greek resistance movement, worked 18 months as advance men in Africa for the invasion...