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...Sword. During the war, while his wife worked for OWI, Carter launched Yank and Stars and Stripes in the Middle East. He found time to write Winds of Fear, a novel attacking small-town Negro-phobes; and Lower Mississippi, for the Rivers of America series. He came out of the Army a major in Intelligence...
...flashed through Harvard summa cum laude, landed a fellowship at Cambridge University, and came back to Harvard a Junior Fellow. His senior thesis on Orestes A. Brownson, a Transcendentalist who turned Catholic, was published when he was 21, sold only 2,500 copies. With the war he went to OWI in Washington, then to OSS in the ETO, ending up as a corporal in political intelligence...
...Mayer-Burstyn), made by OWI Overseas in 1943 for European distribution, is now for the first time released in the U.S. Its star: Arturo Toscanini, who (with Tenor Jan Peerce, the Westminster Choir and the NBC Symphony Orchestra) made this movie debut, for patriotic motives, free of charge. Content: Verdi's Overture to La Forza del Destino and Hymn of the Nations, the latter with revisions and interpolations by Toscanini. (He changed Italia, patria mia-Italy, my fatherland-to Italia tradita-Italy, betrayed, and climaxed the piece with the Internationale and The Star-Spangled Banner...
...year-old Paul Smith left his job as general manager of George Cameron's Chronicle, flew to Washington to take over the Navy's press section, with a lieutenant commander's two and a half stripes on his sleeve. From there he had bounced 1) to OWI, as domestic news director; 2) to the Marines, as a private; 3) to combat in the Pacific (Bougainville, Guadalcanal, Guam) as a lieutenant; 4) back to the Navy, as a commander; 5) to Iwo Jima and Okinawa, as a press-relations handyman...
First stop was a testimonial banquet to another publisher: "Ep" Hoyt, of the Portland Oregonian, with whom I worked in OWI. He was leaving to take over the Denver Post (TIME, Feb. 18), and some 500 of Portland's leading citizens got up the banquet to show that they were sorry to see him go. West Coast citizens certainly have a tremendous personal interest in their communities and a deep sense of civic responsibility for them...