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Among those the Tribune rapped: Arkansas's Representative J. W. Fulbright, whose plan for postwar international cooperation gives Tribune Publisher McCormick ideological chills & fever; OWI's Elmer Davis, whom the Tribune accused of having majored in the "tactic of vilification" while at Oxford; OONR (a Tribune tag meaning "Old Oxonians Not Rhodes Scholars") Marshall Field III (Eton and Cambridge), editor of the Tribune-rivaling Chicago Sun; OONR Henry R. Luce (Hotchkiss, Yale and Oxford), editor of TIME...
...OWI has received more & more queries from matrimonially minded women ("Would I enjoy living in Kansas?") and others startled by the love-making of far-from-home U.S. soldiers ("When I go out with an English boy, he might want to kiss me, but . .. the American soldier...
Double Talk. The larger questions are often hard to handle. Lacking any clear-cut answer to the Negro problem, for instance, OWI has put Paul Robeson and other "experts" on the air to talk around and about it. Inconclusive as this is, OWI has at least tried to make a fair presentation of the issues...
These artless British queries were inspired by the presence of thousands of U.S. fighting men in Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand. OWI undertakes to answer such questions in a weekly radio program called Answering You. In England the program has risen to fourth place on BBC's "inspirational" list, with an estimated audience...
Once, at least, OWI has been glad to fall back on deliberate double talk. That was when a bewildered Australian asked what double talk was. OWI dug up a fluent Bronx taxicab driver named Elmer Zittenfeld. Elmer explained that he was about to show the English how to wriggle out of losing a political argument. Said he: "Well, the way I see it is this. If President Roosevelt refuses to greetscong the mendefresh on lend-lease, the Treasury Department will be forced to reconstram all war bonds issued since the 18th of frammish. On the other hand, if you analyze...