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...arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune editorialized: "OFF will coordinate the Office of Coordinator of Information (or OCI), report on the Office of Government Reports (the frequent reference to this as OGRE is just a typographical error), press-agent the innumerable Press Agents of the Individual Departments (often called the PAIDS) and will under no circumstances do anything whatever that anybody else is doing already. . . . When the Office of Utter Confusion and Hysteria (to be referred to as OUCH) has finally been created, then the capstone will have been set upon the pyramid and we can all die happy, strangled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Information Worse Confounded | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

Apparently convinced-by what, no man knew-collegians last week for the most part were more interventionist than their elders. Most spectacular switch was by students in the arch-isolationist Big Three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Switch | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

Yale. Last year's arch-isolationist News is still isolationist under holdover Chairman William Ford (who succeeded Kingman Brewster). But next January the News will switch; its next chairman will be Sterling Tomkins Jr., ardent interventionist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Switch | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

William Selden Miles, 78, a jovial little Negro, is captain in charge of the cardroom café at Manhattan's arch-Republican Union League Club. Last week, in behalf of the Club he has served for 60 years, Banker James Herbert Case handed Miles a bankbook containing $600 in deposits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Democrat, He | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

Billy Conn had outboxed the champ for 12 rounds last spring. Nova spent three years in college (at California College of Agriculture) and was serious-minded in a way that reminded some people of Arch-Boxer Gene Tunney. This slender analogy had forced the odds on Louis down to 13 to 5 last week. Nova's studies in yoga also made him something of an unknown quantity, since fight fans do not know how seriously to take yoga, or how seriously Lou took it himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sunday Punch | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

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