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...advertising man, returned from the Pacific air war to the firm of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Copywriter Caldwell offered some advice: "If you're to regard the ten million men in the services ... as future customers, it is important not to get their backs...
...Innocent Voyage (adapted by Paul Osborn from Richard Hughes's novel A High Wind in Jamaica; produced by The Theatre Guild) makes a game try at a tough target. Richard Hughes's strikingly original novel is a caution to dramatize. In one sense a fantasy about some 19th-Century children who fell into the hands of pirates and plagued the merry life out of them, it is also a bold study of the seemingly innocent but impenetrable, amoral and frequently shocking nature of children...
Playwright Osborn has coaxed a good deal of the book's oddity and fun into the theater. But from some of its subterraneous horror he shies off, some of it eludes him, and the rest comes through merely as melodrama...
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...
...Wrote Mrs. Luther Osborn, of Route 4, Rushville, Ind., to an unknown Russian woman : "Through the window the grass looks so green. . . . Indiana has had much rain in the past few weeks, but truly, I am thankful for it. ... It does look as though we would have a bumper strawberry crop. Our berries are the Premiers, fine for shortcakes, canning and preserves...