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...skillful blend of Army and NBC talent. The Army provides the cast and the military props. NBC pays the costs ($3,500 a week) and supplies the broadcast facilities. A staff of seasoned radiomen (Writer-Producer-Director Wyllis Cooper, Studio Director Eddie Dunham, Liaison Man Captain Ed Byron) put the show together. The man who conceived it is Lieut. Colonel Edward M. Kirby, chief of the radio branch of the War Department's Bureau of Public Relations...
...Eskel Carison, St. Sgt. Donald Peters (Pers. Sgt. Maj.), St. Sgt. Thomas Carlino (Pay Clk.), Sgt. Robert Purser (Supply Sgt.), Cpl. Ernest Foltyn (Pers. Clk.), Cpl. Byron Lamberd (Mail & Chauffer...
Newspapers had been playing blindman's buff with the Roosevelt-Churchill Casablanca conference story ever since Jan. 9, when all editors were advised by Censor Byron Price: "The President is taking another trip. . . . Attention is directed forcefully to the Code provision restricting any information regarding [his] movements. . . ." By Jan. 25, when the printable news reached their desks, with another 32 hours before it could be officially released (at 10 p.m. E.W.T., the 26th), they had fidgets. Meanwhile they hinted to the hilt...
...Training. Early last March General Arnold tossed the problem of setting up such a system into the lap of a staff assistant, Colonel Byron E. Gates, promising his complete backing if there were squawks from traditionalists whose toes got stepped on. With the help of a statistics-minded young Texan, Lieut. Colonel Charles Thornton, he set to work. By mid-April the program had been set up, arrangements made with Harvard Business School to train cadets...
...blind are finding increasing opportunities in the war effort: >Blind, 23-year-old Byron H. Webb of Chicago was graduated from De Paul University last month, wanted to fight the Axis somehow. He was told of various relatively nonessential jobs he could do. Dissatisfied, he thought hard, sold himself to the Signal Corps. His job: teaching Signal Corps men to make emergency radio repairs in the dark. >Toledo Scale Co. has a new instrument, invented by blind Evelyn Watson of Buffalo, which permits blind people to weigh by ear such things as powder for fuses, mica for radio installations, buttons...