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William S. Paley, elegant-dressing president of the Columbia Broadcasting System, was ready for shipment overseas to join OWI's psychological warfare crews in the Mediterranean area. Off & on for a week he had been doing muscle building, studying pamphleteering, intelligence gathering, short-wave receiving at the indoctrination school on the vast Marshall Field estate on Long Island. Cartier, the dazzling Manhattan jewelry firm, had finished...
...OWI recently announced that many movie managers are hard beset by juvenile delinquents. In Berkeley they caused a $35,000 fire. In one Oakland theater they caused four fires on four successive nights. Some exhibitors write the parents of offenders, but "in the more exclusive suburbs they are fearful of offending... " Ushers, usually kids themselves, are usually helpless. One Cleveland manager "turned the tide" by exhibiting in his lobby a ravaged seat under the slogan "Vandalism Is Treason." One Philadelphia theater was harassed by a gang of small fry "led by a six-year-old boy who crawled under seats...
...This is no innocuous bit of pollen wafted idly on the currents of international thought. It is a seed already planted in many minds. OWI is as forbidden to speak lightly of Hirohito as it is to call Victor Emmanuel a 'moronic little king...
...African culture, has tackled an invention for improving acoustics. In addition he has learned a dozen languages, including Chinese, Hebrew, Russian, Welsh. For the war effort he has sung in camps all over the U.S. (even in the South), worked for the Treasury Department, broadcast to Europe for the OWI. Robeson has never shilly-shallied about his leftist sympathies, never blinked other minority problems than his own. Says he fiercely: "No Negro would dare be anti-Semitic in front...
...OWI hoped that Elmer's explanation would not wholly discombobulate a program seriously intended to inform...