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...able publisher of the Des Moines Register and Tribune and Look, president of Iowa Broadcasting Co., a new face on the official Washington scene, was brought in to head the OWI branch on domestic news. Sad-faced, elongated Playwright Robert Sherwood takes over the dissemination of over seas news. Archibald MacLeish, whose OFF had been swallowed up in the reorganization, becomes head of the "Policy Development Branch." His job: relationships between OWI, the policy-forming officials of Federal agencies, and between OWI and representatives of the United Nations...
Married. Barbara Hutton, 30, Woolworth heiress ("the richest girl in the world"), and Cinemactor Archibald Alexander Leach (cinemonicker: Gary Grant), 38; she for the third time, he for the second; at Lake Arrowhead, Calif. She divorced her first husband, Georgian Prince Alexis Mdivani, in 1935, her second, Danish Count Haugwitz-Reventlow, in 1941; Grant was divorced by Cinemactress Virginia Cherrill...
Klieg lights played on the pink marble head of Lenin, brooding in the great hall of the Kremlin; on the thousand heads in mid-Asian skullcaps, scarves and army caps; on the calm, mute face of Stalin; on the discreet face of Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S.S.R.; and on Molotov, crying to the members of the Supreme Soviet...
...President abolished in one sweeping stroke a galaxy of conflicting agencies: the Office of Facts and Figures (Archibald MacLeish), the Office of Government Reports (Lowell Mellett), the division of information of the Office of Emergency Management (Robert Horton), the Office of the Coordinator of Information ("Wild Bill" Donovan). Donovan's agency was reorganized, its name changed to the Office of Strategic Services, and it was put under the general staffs of the Army & Navy...
Married. The Right Rev. Archibald Lang Fleming, 58, the Anglican Church's "Flying Bishop" of the Arctic; and Elizabeth Nelson Lukens, associate headmistress of The Agnes Irwin School near Philadelphia; in Ardmore, Pa.; he for the second time...