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...More Giveaway. During the war, the A. P. gave its news to the OWI and psychological-warfare agencies. The State Department's interim information service, heir to OWI, still beams 66 program hours of news a day, in 21 languages. Last week the A.P. shut off the State Department's principal free supply of news. U.P. announced that it would follow suit. If their real reason had been that they did not want to give their news to the Government for nothing, that would have been understandable. But apparently they had also refused to sell it. The real...
...Pierre Lazareff. As the editor of Marie-Claire (a sort of Ladies' Home Journal with a French accent), she ran its circulation to 1,250,-ooo copies a week before France fell. As wartime refugees in the U.S., the Lazareffs kept busy, he with the French section of OWI and she with Harper's Bazaar and the New York Times. M. Lazareff now edits France-Soir...
...really knew as well as anybody what was wrong with our Overseas Operations in OWI and also what was right with them and he served mightily in correcting the former and promoting the latter. I am delighted that he has come back to such a fine...
...Lomax, now a hefty Army private, disapproves of his own twangy Texas voice, uses it constantly to "sell the Archive." At sings late at night in his Greenwich Village apartment, he is often joined by his sister, Bess Lomax Hawes, who has handled the music for OWI's overseas broadcasts. By last week the Library of Congress had employed four clerks to handle 30,000 inquiries about his records. He describes the albums as: "Plain and unadulterated folk song, usually about death, sweat, hard work, love. No fancy-pants stuff like Oklahoma!. Miserable people make the most exciting music...
...days of peace, the ABC network last week bought a voice that reassured America in the days of war: the crackling1 Hoosier rasp of former OWI chief Elmer Davis. More than 30 advertisers have offered to sponsor his thrice-a-week commentary-at $1,500 a broadcast...