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...year-old Lou Cowan, a 6-ft.-3 in., 214-lb. Ph.D. (in history) from the University of Chicago. He hit radio's big time in 1940 by producing Quiz Kids, which still writes him an annual check in six figures. After a wartime stint as boss of OWI's hub office in New York, Cowan went back to show-packaging-producing and selling programs complete from stars to sound cues. Senator was his second postwar production, second sale. (The first: a transcribed series, Murder at Midnight.) To shape it, Cowan laid out $5,000. Chief budget items...
...postwar baby, Holiday, was ailing and in need of transfusions. Curtis President Walter D. Fuller raided "X", transferred its editor, natty, 44-year-old Manhattan Adman Ted Patrick,* to edit Holiday. Fuller also dug into what Patrick called his "terrific staff" of "X"-men, many recruited from Yank and OWI. Holiday, Curtis' flashily upholstered but unexciting travel magazine, had dropped from a first-appearance (TIME, Feb. 25) sale of 450,000 to 400,000 (about half of them pre-publication trial subscribers), and newsstand returns were heavy. Fuller brushed off rumors that Holiday might fold ("damn foolishness") and said...
Among the 200 Rhodes scholars who rate Who's Who in America: Henry Holt & Co.'s President Joseph Brandt, ex-OWI Director Elmer Davis, FCCommissioner Clifford J. Durr, Arkansas Senator. J. William Fulbright, Author Christopher Morley...
...France, it was a tragic loss. Since June 1944, when slender, blond, esthete Imbs (rhymes with rims) established the first free radio for the OWI in Cherbourg, he has been the darling of the French air waves, broadcasting as many as five shows a week throughout France. He spoke knowingly of American jive, presented France's best recorded jazz hot, got as many as 400 fan letters a week. The French liked the tone of his voice, and thought his Yankee accent charming...
...Pale Horseman, originally put together by OWI Overseas, is bold-faced propaganda. Its message: there are millions of war-battered people in Europe and in Asia who must have food, shelter and medical supplies at once. The Allied armies and UNRRA have done what they could, but the U.S. people must do a lot more...