Letters home : July to December, 1945 : transcripts, 1945.

Roos, Joanna, 1901-1989

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Joanna Roos, an American actress and author, was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1901. She appeared on Broadway from 1921 until the late 1960s, working with such actors as Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. She acted in the San Diego and New York Shakespeare Festivals, as well as in films and television. She retired in 1979 from the soap opera ''Love of Life.'' Roos was a founding member of the New Dramatists Committee. Several of the plays she wrote for the group won awards. From the desc...

Rickett, Peter

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United Service Organizations (U.S.)

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The United Service Organizations (USO) was incorporated in the state of New York on February 4, 1941, as a joint operation by the YMCA, YWCA, National Catholic Community Service, the National Jewish Welfare Board, the Traveler's Aid Association, and the Salvation Army, to provide religious, spiritual, social, welfare, educational, and entertainment services to men and women in the armed forces during World War II. The USO has continued to provide these services to the present. From t...

Rickett, Edmond W.

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