William Harlan Hale papers 1915-1970

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William Harlan Hale papers 1915-1970

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Correspondence, writings, memoranda, reports, printed matter, and memorabilia, chiefly documenting Hale's career as a journalist, as a member of intelligence units in the United States Army during and after World War II, and later as a member of the foreign service in Austria (1950-1953). His correspondence is largely with editors, publishers, and writers about the projected articles, or about the magazines that he sucessively edited, especially the the and Prominent correspondents are Max Ascoli, founder of the Bruce Bliven, and Oswald Garrison Villard. During World War II and just after the end of the war, when Hale was on the staff of the Psychological Warfare Branch of the Allied Expeditionary Force, he collected numerous memoranda analyzing German public opinion, including both civilians and German prisoners of war. Also included are reports on visits to Buchenwald (1945 Apr 12) and Dachau (1945 May 24) immediately after the camps were freed. The collection contains more than one hundred leaflets illustrating the psychological warfare conducted by the Allies during the war, and printed propaganda issued by the Germans, the British, and the Americans as well. His service in Vienna is documented by a diary (1951-1952), State Department memoranda, and extensive anti-Soviet printed matter issued by the United States at the height of the Cold War. New Republic, Reporter, Horizon. Reporter,

9 linear feet (22 boxes, 1 folio)

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970

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Richard Josef Neutra was born in 1892 in Vienna; immigrated to US, 1923; Frank Lloyd Wright invited him to Taliesin during the fall of 1924; Neutra moved to Los Angeles, CA, 1925; most productive years were during 1930s and 1940s; spent most of his last decade in partnership with his son, Dion; published several books, including Wie baut Amerika? (1927) and Survival through design (1954); died in 1970. From the description of Papers, 1925-1970. (University of California, Los Angeles)...

Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949

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Epithet: US journalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000429.0x000092 Villard, a journalist and author, was president of the New York Evening Post (1897-1918), editor and owner of The Nation (1918-1932), publisher and contributing editor of The Nation (1932-1935), a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and of Yachting Magazine, and owner of the Nautical Gazette. His father ...

Yale University. Students.

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Ascoli, Max, 1888-

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Bliven, Bruce.

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Hale, William Harlan, 1910-1974

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An early pen name of William H. Hale was Harlan Thomas. From the description of Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1939. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155890430 William Harlan Hale: founded Yale magazine, Harkness Hoot, with Selden Rodman; published first book in 1932; associate editor of Vanity Fair, 1932; columnist on Washington Post, 1933-1934; editorial associate, Fortune, 1934-1936; worked for Office of War Information, 1941-1945, in conne...