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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Problem of Tomorrow. At the same time the Times's London bureau chief, James B. Reston, managed to send through censorship several articles reporting concern that the U.S. is not taking a leading role in defining the shape of postwar Europe. He noted that "the great power of Soviet Russia in the political field is active, while the power of the American Republic is much more passive. . . . The silence of the United States on (European) topics is a source of a considerable amount of questioning" among Allied diplomats who must plan for the future...
...Keenan Wynn), his bucktoothed, leering sidekick, Private Esty (George Offerman Jr.), and a solemn, proletarian, Private Burk (Bill Phillips). Private Burk tries to explain to Private Hargrove the puzzled sources of his patriotism, but Mulvehill and Esty simply gyp Hargrove right & left. As co-executives of a mythical Date Bureau, they sell him an evening with a girl (Donna Reed) who never heard of their scheme. They also form the Marion Hargrove Beneficial Association to raise funds for his New York furlough. The catch: he signs over to them the proceeds of his literary future. Later Mulvehill wangles good safe...
Students planning to take the A.S.T.P. Reserve, V-12 test tomorrow must have their admission forms, obtainable at Little 11, in order to be admitted to the test which will be held in New Lecture Hall at 9 o'clock sharp, warned Elliott Perkins, director of the Bureau of War information, yesterday. Promptness is essential. It will be wise to be there at 8:45 o'clock, he continued...
Distaffers. None could dispute that Washington's editors need women reporters and writers. At the bottom of the manpower barrel, they are recruiting more & more women. The United Press bureau, which had only one woman reporter before the war, now has eleven on beats and eight others in its office. The Senate and House Galleries, which had some 30 women six years ago, now lists...
...newshens cover almost everything. A few have been on the police beat. They help on every major Government bureau beat and on two -OPA and Agriculture-women alone represent one major press association. The editors' consensus is that they do remarkably well. A girl reporter at the Interior Department was first to dig out the "Big Inch" faulty-pipe story. The Associated Press's young Flora Lewis was 24 hours ahead on the State Department's embargo of oil shipments to Spain. The girls contend that the traditional greeting of officials at press conferences -"Good morning, gentlemen...