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...Preliminary Bout. The answering roar of "Bull Bill" could be heard by 130,000,000 rubber-conscious Americans, as he in tended it should. In a warm-up for Patter son, Jeffers ripped a horn into OWI's Elmer Davis for gloomily predicting that the nation was too optimistic about rub ber. Jeffers harshly said that Davis didn't know what he was talking about, stuck to his previous announcement: civilians would be purchasing synthetic tires early next year. Then he rumbled about Washingtonians "sitting around desks and is suing orders and grousing about someone else taking something...
Anticlimactically ended was the well-publicized case of balding, bespectacled Bandsman Kay Kyser v. the draft. Turned down on his 1-A appeal, despite OWI-backing for his efforts as a war-bond hawker, the 36-year-old swingster was turned down by Army physicians (hernia and arthritis...
From now on U.S. citizens will get their war news well washed and perfumed-that is, if the Office of War Information has its way. This depressing intelligence was confirmed last week when OWI went through another shakeup. When the dust had settled, the men who had tried to be realists about the war Were unhorsed, while the so-called soap salesmen were in the saddle. Off went capable, Pulitzer Prizewinner Henry Fowles Pringle (OWI's No. 1 writer), 13 other top writers and publishers. In came smooth, dapper, onetime Columbia Broadcasting System vice president William Bennett Lewis (Assistant...
...Facilities, New Problems. With its 27 "outposts" in 21 countries, its 2,682 radio programs a week (The Voice of America), its service of U.S. newsreels to theaters in neutral countries, its new radiophoto service to eleven points, including Moscow, Chungking and Cairo, OWI has done plenty to open up channels of communication. So has the British Ministry of Information, which even publishes a Russian-language paper in Kuibyshev...
Universal Air. Radio technology may very quickly alter this. Press Wireless, Inc. transmitted 600 photographs over its radiophoto circuits to Berne,Moscow and Chungking last January; OWI men in the field are now using portable radiophoto transmitters. The development of high-frequency transmission will mean a local broadcast band of nearer to 500,000 kilocycles than the present 15,000. The arrival of television and television