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John Chipman Farrar (S&B 1918)

Publisher. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Yale Record.

Founder and Chairman of the Board Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc NYC.[2]

? to ? - Becoming, President in 1951 - The New York Center of the P.E.N. Club.

1949 - Cord Myer [S&K 1941]- Published A Progress Report on World Federation, “the recent formation of a “Writers’ Board for World Government” should help in reaching a mass audience with the federalist case. The board is an autonomous group of seventeen writers, with Rex Stout as chairman and Clifton Fadiman, John Hersey, Oscar Hammerstein, and Robert Sherwood among the members. It assigns ideas for magazine articles, and radio and film scripts to competent writers and helps secure publication”.

1948 to 1952 - National Conf. Christians and Jews.

1946 - Founder, Editor, Chairman of the Board, Farrar & Strauss.[2]

1946 - Lecturer, Publishing course, Columbia University.[2]

1946 to 1950 - Member, Federal Grand Jury Assoc.[2]

WW2 - Sep 1944 to Dec 1945 - Overseas Publications of OWI, editor of USA and Die Amerikanische Rundschau.[4]

WW2 - 1943 to 1944 - Member, Psychological Warfare Branch Office of War Information (OWI).[4] First stationed in Algiers and here [US] in charge of O.W.I.’s over-seas publications.

WW2 - 1940 to 1943 - Member, Writers Board for World Government.[2]

Great Depression / WW2 - 1929 to 1944 - Editor, VP Chairman Board Farrar & Rinehart.[2]

1927 - Director, Doubleday Doran & Co.[2]

1925 - Editor, George H Doran.[2]

1921 to 1927 - Editor, The Bookman.[2]

1919 to 1921 - Reporter, NY Sunday World.[2]

WW1 - 1917 to 1919 - 1st Lt, USAF.[2]

1918 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]

Died 5 Nov 1974, from Not Known. Age 78.

Note: According to Francis Stonor Saunders (Who Paid The Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, p. 242) Farrar also played a role in Cord Meyer’s [S&K 1941 - Search Mind Map] appointment of John Hunt (CIA) to replace the Congress for Cultural Freedom’s [argued that it was funded by CIA] ailing head Michael Josselson. Farrar recommended Hunt for his “executive ability, a careful head and a sense of mission for the things we all believe in.” His work appeared in Harper’s.[7][8]

[1] - America’s Secret Establishment. An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones by Antony C. Sutton (2004)

[2] - Fleshing Out Skull & Bones - Investigations into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society 2008 by Antony Sutton, Howard Altman, Kris Millegan, Dr Ralph Bunch, Anton Chaitkin and Webster Griffin Tarpley

[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen

[4] - S&B Obituaries

[5] - NY Times - John C. Farrar, Publisher, Editor and Writer, Is Dead.

[6] - FYI - Wiki - John Chipman Farrar (S&B 1918)

[7] - The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters By Frances Stonor Saunders

[8] - Spartacus Educatonal.com - John Hunt

[9] - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Oct 1949 - References to Writers Board for World Government.