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Hopper spent three years in London as official historian for the 8th Air Force. Before going to London, he was in Stockholm for the OWI...
Although Comdr. Morison's return will fill an important gap in the History Department, it will by no means end the list of members on leave of absence. Among these are: John K. Fairbank '29, associate professor of History, who is in the Far Eastern Section of the OWI, and has also worked for the Office of Strategic Services in China; Lieutenant Richard W. Leopold, USNR, faculty instructor in History, who is serving in Washington...
...final wartime assignment was to head up OWI in Italy and the Balkans. (While in Rome he published OWI magazines totaling 525,000 copies a month - among them the Italian "Nuovo Mundo," the Croatian "DANAS," the Serbian "AAHAC...
...year 800 actors and musicians and 45 scriptwriters were used on one or another of its 150 pro grams. Its guest performers have included Carl Van Doren, Archibald MacLeish, Orson Welles, Canada Lee, Tallulah Bankhead, Deems Taylor. The Army broadcast it to servicemen over 400 radio stations, and the OWI beamed it to Australia and New Zealand...
...million was better than in any prewar year except 1929. Though 34 of its 59 pre war foreign offices were closed, and civil ian travel dropped out of sight, American Express was busy arranging trips for thou sands of globe-trotting officials connected with OWI, RFC, the Navy, and other Government agencies...