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United Nations World, launched by former Yank Boss Egbert White with the aid of Michael (New Republic) Straight (who later dropped out), was spending some of its $400,000 in new capital on an expanded business section (up from three pages to 16). Under ex-WPB Adviser Herbert Harris, United Nations World (circ. 85,000) will run special stories on basic industries and commodities, and more pictures in a streamlined format...
...grinning vaguely at each other. In its table of contents were names like Pearl Buck, Arthur Compton, Trygve Lie, Edouard Herriot; on its editorial masthead were names like William L. Shirer, Thomas Mann, Jawaharlal Nehru, Vincent Sheean and Lin Yutang. The magazine's real head is Publisher Egbert White, a former Manhattan advertising executive who ran Yank and the Mediterranean Stars and Stripes for the Army...
...Pearl Harbor here," remarked Egbert V. Edgemont '50 yesterday, as he bolted all the windows of his ground floor Wigglesworth room in step with more official preparations...
...hell-to-breakfast howl went up. Stars and Stripes alumni recalled a year-old legend: General Lee, like the late General Patton, had tried and failed to get Cartoonist Bill Mauldin's Willie & Joe (who grew up in Stars and Stripes) suppressed-or shaved. One old grad, Colonel Egbert White, fired a hot protest to Chief of Staff Eisenhower, called Lee's order " a drastic departure from the policies you established and supported." (In Paris, an officer once ordered Stars and Stripes to do something for the boys: print as a slug line between every story "HAVE...
...EGBERT WHITE...