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...OWI's towering (6 ft. 7 in.), gloomy-browed Playwright Robert E. Sherwood (Idiot's Delight)* sometime Presidential speech doctor, was in town to "coordinate" U.S. propaganda between London and the Mediterranean. He managed to get around to a fair share of cocktail parties, where he looked miserable, helped serve drinks. Playwright Sherwood's There Shall Be No Night, one of wartime London's smash hits, had to suspend performances when Actor Alfred Lunt caught bronchitis fire-watching, and passed his cold along to Actress Lynn Fontanne...
Over the next 18 months, by working hard at it, Mrs. Barnes managed to give away the whole $3 million-"perfectly anonymously." Some of her benefaction, became known only last week: the founding of Manhattan's Chatham Square Music School; the establishment with Playwright Bella Spewack (wife of OWI's Playwright Sam) of the New York Girls' School Scholarship Fund; the organization of the New York Housing Trust, a war-halted experiment in limited-profits slum-clearance projects...
...Handed the OWI intra-bureau warfare (TIME, Feb. 7) right back to OWI. He told OWI Boss Elmer Davis and Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, head of OWI's Overseas Branch, to settle it themselves. The settlement this week: Bob Sherwood's three top men in New York-Newsman Joseph Barnes, Economist James Warburg, Editorial Chief Edd Johnson-resigned; Sherwood will go to London. This seemed a clean-out victory for Elmer Davis-his first in 20 months...
Lapful. It was thus up to the President to: 1) spank one and pat the other; 2) take the job away from both; or 3) set up a wholly new agency on top of OWI, with a new name on top, and nobody fired. This alternative seemed most likely...
...this was a negative argument at best. More sense-making was the statement of Palmer Hoyt, recently resigned as domestic chief of OWI: "If we tell the story of Japanese bestiality frankly and boldly, and as a part of each day's news, as I trust we will begin to do, I think the Japanese will treat their captives better. With the war going against them, they will fear to do otherwise...