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...OWI, which usually approaches Congress with the dread of a stumblebum fighter who knows he must take the count before he gets paid off, had surprisingly good luck last week. The House gave it $58,000,000 - $20,000,000 more than last year. This minor miracle was wrought after five members of the powerful and cautious Appropriations Committee made a sur prise visit to OWI's nine-story Overseas Division in Manhattan. The skeptical Congressmen went in to scoff, came out to praise. Glowed Indiana's Louis Ludlow: "I will venture to say that no other activity...
...City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia announced a street service to be held in Madison Square on the day; Maryland's Governor Herbert O'Conor asked all liquor stores to close for the rest of the day on receipt of the invasion news. And in Washington, OWI Chief Elmer Davis pleaded that there be no commercial exploitation of Dday...
...film was made by Producer Walter Wanger at the request of U.S. Assistant Surgeon General R. A. Vonderlehr, for free distribution. Both the U.S. Public Health Service and OWI approved it. Then, at the behest of Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, the Legion of Decency's Executive Secretary, the Very Reverend Monsignor John J. McClafferty, wrote OWI's Elmer Davis...
...Promptly OWI suspended its approval. As promptly Surgeon General Thomas Parran, himself a Roman Catholic, with drew the approval of his U.S. Public Health Service...
...lend-leased a symphony conductor to the Commonwealth of Australia this week. He was the Philadelphia Orchestra's chunky, barrel-chested Maestro Eugene Ormandy. The lease was arranged (through OWI) at the request of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, which expects Ormandy to conduct at least 18 symphony concerts in big Australian cities, as many Australian army camps as he can reach in ten weeks of touring...