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There were dark hints of an investigation of Davis and his OWI. Virginia's tart Senator Harry S. Byrd, who has quietly been looking into OWI's wastebaskets all along, was reinvigorated. Washington news beagles were spending many precious hours tracking down the rare and fragrant rumors out of OWI, whence came smells now overripe, now sulfurous. Each day brought rumors of reorganization, employes' rump sessions, secret caucuses. Many an OWIster was quietly looking for another job. The house might not yet be afire, but it was smoking...
...mysterious Office of Strategic Services (known irreverently in Washington as "the cloak & dagger boys"). He took over some 3,000 employes, scores of jealousies and quarrels, innumerable unsolved problems of policy and procedure. One radio vice president gave up a $50,000-a-year job to join OWI, was still waiting months later to know what his duties were. Henry Paynter, onetime Hearst man, working away at his new OWI job,.was amazed when a stranger walked into his office, introduced himself as head of the United Nations news bureau. "That's interesting," said Paynter...
Lopping the Heads. Davis, an amateur administrator, left administration to his assistants: Associate Director Milton S. Eisenhower, longtime Government career man and brother of General Dwight D. Eisenhower; Gardner Cowles Jr., onetime president of the Des Moines Register & Tribune, now head of OWI's domestic branch; gangling Robert Sherwood, playwright, collaborator on Franklin Roosevelt's speeches and head of OWI's overseas branch...
...OWI is no better an organization today than it was six months ago. Its Washington offices, spilling out of the massive Social Security Building into two adjoining buildings, are full of men seemingly looking for something to do. Its main overseas office in Manhattan has 1,400 employes who do work in shifts around the clock, often put in a 72-hour week. They shortwave 2,688 radio shows a week in 20 languages, cable spot news, features, and the texts of official speeches to 20 countries. They have 21 radio transmitters, 33 "outpost" offices abroad...
...OWI overseas works like this: the Basic News desk in the newsroom receives the huge flow pouring in from all news and radio services and Federal bureaus, processes it for distribution, sends it on an intermit teletype circuit to all language desks, to NBC and CBS short-wave departments. This file of stories becomes the basic news...