Word: owis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Henry Koerner came to the U.S. 16 years ago, a refugee from the Nazi pogroms in his native Vienna. He designed propaganda posters for the OWI and OSS during World War II, soon afterwards earned his present reputation as one of the nation's most thoughtful and skillful painters. His first fame rested on pictures just this side of surrealism: a barber treating a bearded customer to a violin concert, children sledding on tailors' dummies, a pregnant girl trapped in a jungle gym. What gave weight to their gloomy wit was the exactitude of Koerner's observation...
Speaker Frank Shea talked on South America and the Middle East. He was in the psychological warfare branch of OWI in the Middle East during the war, later went into the Balkans as a State Department coordinator for the U.S. Information Service ("As if anyone could coordinate the Balkans"). He was later TIME Bureau Chief in Buenos Aires, where he spent two days "in one of Juan Peron's jails for his stories on the confiscation of La Prensa (TIME, March 12, ?951). In his talks the thing that impressed him most, said Shea, was how well informed...
...handy formula : stick to the facts of speech, happening or pressagent's handout, let the reader supply his own background information on the story (if he has any) and call it "objective journalism." This week in the Atlantic Monthly, ABC Network Commentator Elmer Davis, wartime boss of the OWI and a first-rate newshand himself, takes the formula apart. "Truth has three dimensions," says Davis, yet the "practices of the American news business-practices adopted in a praiseworthy ambition to be objective-too often give us only one-dimensional news, factually accurate as far as it goes, but very...
...Among Lattimore's governmental assignments: President Franklin Roosevelt's personal emissary to Chiang Kai-shek (1941-42), head of the OWI Pacific operations (1942-44), traveler with Vice President Henry Wallace in Soviet Siberia and China (1944), co-writer of the Pauley Mission Report on Japan (1946), participant in State's conference on China policy...
...Haas waited almost a decade before resuming the career of scripter-director-actor that won him a reputation in Europe before World War II. After fleeing Czechoslovakia (and later Paris) a jump ahead of the Germans, he made his way to the U.S. Between a wartime job as an OWI broadcaster and stints on the stage in New York and Chicago, he learned enough English to get character roles in Hollywood. With German-born Scripter Arnold Phillips, he prepared the Pickup scenario from a Czech novel, then trudged around to independent producers trying to sell it. "They all said...