Word: donovan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merger of four agencies which had been getting on everybody's nerves: Archibald MacLeish's Office of Facts & Figures, Lowell Mellett's Office of Government Reports, Robert Horton's information service for the Office of Emergency Management, part of Colonel William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan's Office of Coordinator of Information...
...Eddie Donovan was the star of the CG game, sinking the basket that sent the game into overtime and the one that iced the game. He and Saul Nechtem, former BU star will be on hand for the contest with the ROTC...
...team is composed almost entirely of former college players now taking their Naval training here at Harvard. Jack Davis. Co.C. who once played for Dartmouth, Ed Donovan who played with Holy Cross, Cliff Hoffman who was with the basketball team from the University of Michigan, Sallie Nechtem who played with Boston U., Johnnie Pauler from Carrol College, Frank Smith from Penn State, Howie Vocke from St. Johns University, and Dick Yeager from Michigan Normal make up the entire team...
...Kenneth W. Purdy, a Midwesterner who left the University of Wisconsin to become editor of the Oshkosh (Wis.) Fox Valley Free Press at 21. Then he joined the Annenberg publications, working on Radio Guide and Radio Digest. He went to Click in 1938, later went to Look, joined the Donovan Committee in November...
...have started a blood-doning ball rolling with mass donations yesterday morning. Joseph Pennington, who organized the group, said last night that he hoped the idea would catch on in other departments. Those, besides Pennington, who were among the first to give blood in Boston yesterday were: Mrs. Catherine Donovan, Mrs. Catherine Mervin, Mrs. Dorothy Irwin, Mrs. Alma Thomas, and Mrs. Bertha Mederos...