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...this man's world, True has been top dog ever since the late Bill Williams transformed it from a dying pulp into a lively slick (TIME, April 19, 1948). Under Editor Ken W. Purdy, 36, ex-boss of the OWI's Victory and later Marshall Field's Sunday supplement Parade, True has kept on growing, now guarantees its advertisers a circulation...
Audience Poll. Ascoli will write the lead editorial for each issue, and look over the shoulder of Managing Editor Llewellyn White, 49, a veteran newsman (the Paris Herald, Newsweek, the Chicago Sun, OWI). Besides his editorial staff of 34, including Pulitzer Prizewinner Leland Stowe, White has lined up an impressive list of outside contributors, e.g., Herald Tribune Editorialist Walter Millis, Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Critic Alfred Kazin. The Reporter will print few photographs, use cartoons and black & white drawings to brighten the text...
...Beard, A Red. The FBI man asks Santa if he has been "a member of the IWW, the IWO, the OWI, the Friends of the U.S.S.R., the New Deal, the Russian-U.S. Institute." Santa says he doesn't work for Russia-"they've got a man by the name of G. F. Frost." This, the FBI man learns regretfully, is not a spy but Grandfather Frost (Russian for Santa...
Like several other historians of the period, Sherwood himself was on the inside track in World War II. He was head of the Overseas Branch of OWI; as one of Roosevelt's speech writers for five years, he frequently lived at the White House, heard plenty and knew F.D.R.'s mind. Besides being on the inside track, he had a head start: the use of 40 filing cabinets of papers left by Hopkins...
...Managing Editor Dystel, 35, got his M.A. at Harvard Business School (1937). During the war he worked for OWI, edited the propaganda magazine U.S.A., worked with the Army's Psychological Warfare Branch. In his new job, he is supposed to make Collier's step lively; he is unlikely to step on any toes...