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...much. Chief reservations: 1) Washington suggested that a "brownout" (midway between total darkness and every movie marquee ablaze) would help save electricity and fuel; 2) Army & Navy men warned that if enemy submarines should crop up in force again off U.S. coasts, out the lights must go; 3) OCD officials promised that there would still be an occasional air-raid drill...
Only a few weeks ago the President had tried to clear up this situation by the appointment of State Department "area directors," responsible to OFEC. The first were ex-OCD Director James M. Landis, assigned to the Middle East, and Calvin B. Baldwin, assigned to Italy. Now the area directors will be Leo Crowley's eyes & ears in the field, will represent U.S. interests in economic operations abroad...
Engaged. Mayris Chancy, 31, Eleanor Roosevelt's onetime dancer-protegee; and Hershey Surkin, 31, orchestra leader; in San Francisco. She did the Bovingdon glide out of OCD...
Private Melvyn Douglas was abruptly upped five grades to a captaincy, after seven months in the Army. The cinemactor-proétgé of Eleanor Roosevelt had enlisted at 41, ten months after Congress had raked his appointment as an OCD consultant. He will plug war bonds...
...Washington the ranks of home-front watchers-air-raid wardens, fire guards, auxiliary police, etc.-had become so thin that OCD officials asked the armed services for help in staging a thumping parade at month's end. Their hope: that the spectacle of Civilian Defense Volunteer Office uniforms and equipment, sandwiched in among warlike detachments of soldiers and sailors, would stimulate recruiting of home-defense workers...