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When Herbert Sebastian Agar, Pulitzer-Prize winning author (The People's Choice), got his discharge from the Navy, he had a good job awaiting him. After four years' leave, he could return to edit Publisher Barry Bingham's prosperous Louisville Courier-Journal. But this week Agar turned up with a smaller platform to speak from and he was happy about it, too. In January, he will become the British Isles editor of Freedom & Union, Clarence Streit's small, earnest voice of federal world-government (TIME, Sept...
Allan Nevins, two-time Pulitzer Prize biographer, took over from Journalist Herbert Agar as "information & culture" chief at the London embassy...
...initial exports will be largely from stocks accumulated during the war-80,000 bales of raw silk, 75,000,000 yards of mixed fabric, 1,500 tons of tea, nearly 1,000,000 grams of cultured pearls. Small amounts of silk, tea and such lesser items as agar-agar (a gelatinous substance extracted from seaweed) may reach the U.S. this year. But most Japanese goods now available for export are suitable only for nearby Asiatic and Pacific markets. In these markets, they will be exchanged for urgently needed food...
...troops, Commander Agar explained, had to be sent home first. But his words were lost in the high-pitched storm. In peroration he assured them: "You have been reasonable and sincere-I thank you for your kindness.' " He sidled to a side door, and fled...
...Shirley. Since her recent marriage to Army Sergeant John Agar, who has returned to camp after a brief honeymoon, Shirley has attracted more attention than ever from cinemaddicts...