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...Iturbi, 46, pianist-conductor, private pilot, enlisted in OCD's Civil Air Patrol, to help do ferrying work, eagle-eye the coast. Spanish-born Iturbi took out his first U.S. citizenship papers last August...
...chief responsibility for the tumult in the Office of Civilian Defense has been blamed on its head, round-bottomed Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, but Eleanor Roosevelt, flitting hither & yon, distributing White House roses among her colleagues' desks, has not notably succeeded in straightening things out. Last fortnight, deciding that OCD workers in Washington did not get enough recreation, she got hold of a portable phonograph, at lunch hours led 40 or 50 workers up to the roof to dance Virginia Reels. "Her intentions," said one admirer, "were swell." The First Lady typified the earnestness and confusion with which U.S. women...
...huge, disheveled loft in Manhattan, short-haired A.W.V.S. women in slate-blue uniforms received applicants. Volunteers had numerous wartime careers to choose from: navigation, aerial photography, truck driving, etc. The work of the A.W.V.S. sometimes overlapped the work of the Red Cross, sometimes duplicated the work of the OCD...
LaGuardia is still to be chief of OCD. With plenty of yell left in him, he announced that Dean Landis "will take the details of the office administration off my shoulders. I will then be able to devote more time to perfecting the organization throughout the country...
...unnamed keynoter will address a general meeting and two round tables will follow, one on tutoring and group work and another on speaking and entertainment. After the lunch at which Saltonstall will speak to delegates from a total of nearly 30 colleges, a discussion group on defense service under OCD direction is planned, and a round table will investigate foreign student instruction and summer social service work such as land corps and work camps...