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  • Q: I would really like to know the age and gender of the person who used Donovan's Catch the Wind in a recent Mass Mutual ad.

    Veteran ad exec says 'Mad Men' really were about sex, booze 2009

  • McLeish introduced Robbie Keane, Donovan's LA Galaxy team-mate, as a late replacement but the Irishman, starting a seven-week loan spell at Villa Park, was unable to make an impact.

    Stephen Ireland cheers Aston Villa fans in dull draw with Everton 2012

  • For every success Donovan could claim — such as the German agent Fritz Kolbe, who stole 1,600 documents from the foreign ministry in Berlin and took them to an OSS safe house in Switzerland — there was a failure: for example Donovan's prediction, supposedly based on firm intelligence, that the Third Reich would "collapse . . . a few months" after D-Day.

    The Spymaster's Spymaster Andrew Roberts 2011

  • Catch the Wind was the title song on Donovan's break-out album, and the folk singer-songwriter from Scotland followed with 11 consecutive Top 40 hits, including Mellow Yellow, SunshineSuperman and Wear Your Love Like Heaven.

    Veteran ad exec says 'Mad Men' really were about sex, booze 2009

  • The prime minister reciprocated by praising Donovan's "animating heart-warming flame" to FDR.

    The Spymaster's Spymaster Andrew Roberts 2011

  • The value of Donovan's organization is best seen at the time of Operation Overlord, when the OSS and the British Special Operations Executive dropped 10,000 tons of weaponry and equipment to the French Resistance, which put it to good use in slowing down the German counter attack.

    The Spymaster's Spymaster Andrew Roberts 2011

  • As Douglas Waller makes clear in his fast-moving and well-written biography, "Wild Bill Donovan," Roosevelt's approval was the foundation of Donovan's place at the center of American intelligence operations from July 1941 to September 1945.

    The Spymaster's Spymaster Andrew Roberts 2011

  • Elsewhere in Ms. Donovan's district, an admissions gate at the Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve was unmanned even on a busy day recently.

    California Puts Brake on Parks Jim Carlton 2011

  • His antipathy toward Donovan was fueled by Hoover's disgusting and untruthful allegation that among Wild Bill's many mistresses was Donovan's own daughter-in-law.

    The Spymaster's Spymaster Andrew Roberts 2011

  • A: The track in the ad is Donovan's original version of Catch the Wind, out in 1965.

    Veteran ad exec says 'Mad Men' really were about sex, booze 2009

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