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...charge of retrenching was hefty Edd Johnson, a veteran newsman (New York World-Telegram, Cottier's, CBS, OWI), who returned a year ago from three years as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Sun syndicate. Last summer he was hired by the New Republic for eight weeks of editorial doctoring, stayed on as managing editor at Straight's request. Johnson started to trim the editorial budget from $420,000 a year to $240,000. Then Straight asked that a group of lower-bracket employees (19, said Johnson) be lopped off. Johnson countered: Why not get rid of some...
...completed their academic work in the summer form and had been going through a five-week program of refresher courses. Their departure leaves some 350 men in the NROTC unit at Harvard, 20-edd V-12ers who were here during the summer having been processed out of the Navy or sent to graduate school...
...right back to OWI. He told OWI Boss Elmer Davis and Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, head of OWI's Overseas Branch, to settle it themselves. The settlement this week: Bob Sherwood's three top men in New York-Newsman Joseph Barnes, Economist James Warburg, Editorial Chief Edd Johnson-resigned; Sherwood will go to London. This seemed a clean-out victory for Elmer Davis-his first in 20 months...
...clash between Davis and Sherwood started in Manhattan, spread to London, and focused in Washington. The men who actually guide OWI Overseas-newsman Joseph Barnes, economist James Warburg, editorial chief Edd Johnson-operate OWI's vertiginous New York office. Their job: to tell the truth, but not the whole truth about the U.S. to its friends and enemies, and to neutrals abroad. (News of U.S. strikes, for example, is not sent.) Critics have accused the Manhattan psychological warriors of being leftish, of being faction-ridden...
...hills where Solomon got his tall cedars, French officers and helmeted Senegalese soldiers summarily arrested Lebanon's President Bechara El Khoury, Premier Riad Solh and his cabinet ministers. By the day's end, Parliament had been dissolved, a puppet regime led by Francophile ex-President Emile Eddé had been installed, newspapers banned, martial law and curfew imposed, troops posted in squares. Having ordered these measures, French Delegate General Jean Helleu leaned back, ready for the worst...