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Jimmy Forrestal plunged into his new job with characteristic vigor. Returning from Frank Knox's funeral at Arlington National Cemetery, he put in two hours of work at his office. Forthwith, he inaugurated daily staff meetings with Assistant Navy Secretaries Ralph A. Bard and Artemus L. ("Di") Gates. He conferred with top admirals on progress of the war, talked with the Army and Congressmen over the proposal to combine the Army & Navy into one department after the war. Then, with WPB's bustling Charles E. Wilson, he made a flying trip to Boston to pep up production...
Inspired, a British bard posted this...
...work or fight" order. First proposed last October by Connecticut's Representative Clare Boothe Luce, the replacement of drafted war workers by noncontributing 4-Fs was now suddenly endorsed by General Hershey, Secretary of War Stimson, Under Secretary Robert Patterson and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard. The Army & Navy would still like a National Service Act, which is politically impossible to get. They fall back on Congresswoman Luce's bill. Some dopesters thought it unnecessary, thought a public listing of 4-F idlers and nonessential workers would do the trick. Others proposed to hold the threat...
...Shakespeare is also advancing at a neat clip up the West Coast. Last month Cinemactor John Carradine (Grapes of Wrath, Reunion in France) "dress rehearsed" Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, at Pasadena's famed Playhouse, a Shakespeare stronghold that has produced all 37 of the Bard's plays. Carradine's productions were thoughtful rather than exciting, shunned novelty and sensationalism: as Shylock, for example, Carradine refused to point up the racial issue. But, despite gas rationing, Carradine's three-week run broke all Playhouse records for Shakespeare, turned away 250 people a week...
...thoroughly does a man give himself away by his facial expression, his voice, the way he walks? Much more than he suspects, says Psychologist Werner Wolff of Bard College, Columbia University...