Word: farnol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They gave the pictures to a public-relations officer. Major Lynn Farnol, onetime Hollywood and Broadway press agent. Major Farnol, no man to look a good story in the mouth, got the pictures released last fortnight by the War Department bureau of public relations, which knew only that "the case was closed...
...ENEMY AIR-RAID MARKER STORY JUST A HOAX) caught the War Department flatfooted. It admitted that the story was indeed a fraud, launched an inquiry by Lieut. General Hugh A. Drum, commander of the First Army, to fix responsibility. While the press howled for ex-Hollywood Press Agent Lynn Farnol's scalp, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced a reorganization of Army press-agentry, which had been in the works before the air-marker story. The new system, intended to prevent just such blunders and to end rivalry among Army units for headlines, centers responsibility for all Army...