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Chemistry will win the war and sweeten the peace. Such is the categorical opinion of a man exceptionally well-informed about chemists. In a new book (The Chemical Front-Knopf, $3), Williams Haynes, ex-publisher of Chemical Industries and ex-editor of the Chemical Who's Who, this week told about some of the prodigious recent achievements of U.S. chemists. Many of them, in oil, rubber, drugs, are already familiar. But Haynes had some little-known facts to report...
Before the Legion could cry "unfair," Major Spence was out. The Army called his transfer "routine." Brigadier General Frederick Osborn, whose Special Services Branch is responsible for Yank, hinted at an overseas assignment for ex-Editor Spence: "We can't run a good Army newspaper with men who sit in an office...
...sweetness & light was the Group's recent showing in Atlanta. Editor A. L. Henson of the Atlanta Legionnaire attacked both Group and pageant, last fortnight was relieved of his job on the grounds that Legion editors are not free agents in matters "relating to politics or religion." Said ex-Editor Henson: "Folks who excuse the Oxford Group by saying 'the play was all right' aren't acquainted with Georgia mules. A Georgia mule will be perfectly nice for a year to lure the trusting plowman squarely behind his heels for a kickoff...
...should die." He has signed a fat contract to write a weekly piece for Beaverbrook's Sunday Express-"but without the Asterisks" (a Garvinesque pun). Meanwhile, although the Observer was mum on the subject, the possible new editor of the Observer was Arthur Mann, BBC governor and ex-editor of the Yorkshire Post, which first cracked open the Wally Simpson scandal in Britain...
...current rumors that Liberty is sailing in rough waters, ex-Editor Oursler categorically echoes Macfadden Publications in calling them gross slanders...