David Bruce

He finally admitted in a letter to David Bruce that he was a hopeless secret agent: “I cannot see the forest for the trees.”

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

They included Frank Raichle (who had stuck with him after the Saturn Club raid), director John Ford, Time publisher Henry Luce, David Bruce (his London station chief), and Bill Stephenson (the British agent who helped him set up the OSS).

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

David Bruce, walked inland hoping to make contact with his agents or the French resistance.

Douglas Waller's "Wild Bill Donovan," on the OSS spymaster 2011

Somewhat in the case of "The Shadow of a Blackbird," a piano solo by David Bruce, but mostly these were works that provided aural stimulation and pleasure but no emotional engagement.

Howard Kissel: The American Academy Howard Kissel 2011

More naturally attuned to the harp's evocative qualities were Faure's richly colored "Une Chatelaine en sa Tour" which achieved a dreamlike aura in this fine young player's hands, a pair of sensitively scored contemporary pieces - David Bruce's "Caja de Musica" and Kati Agocs's "Every Lover Is a Warrior" - and the centerpiece of the program, Britten's 1969 Suite for Harp in C.

Harpist Bridget Kibbey creates an air of enchantment at Phillips 2011

David Bruce, walked inland hoping to make contact with his agents or the French resistance.

Douglas Waller's "Wild Bill Donovan," on the OSS spymaster 2011

They included Frank Raichle (who had stuck with him after the Saturn Club raid), director John Ford, Time publisher Henry Luce, David Bruce (his London station chief), and Bill Stephenson (the British agent who helped him set up the OSS).

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

He finally admitted in a letter to David Bruce that he was a hopeless secret agent: “I cannot see the forest for the trees.”

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

“If the Germans battle it out inside Germany without help from us,” he cabled David Bruce in London, “it will be of more benefit to humanity.”

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

Somewhat in the case of "The Shadow of a Blackbird," a piano solo by David Bruce, but mostly these were works that provided aural stimulation and pleasure but no emotional engagement.

Howard Kissel: The American Academy Howard Kissel 2011