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...begin to grind out Vol. I, No. 2 of what may well become the Government's biggest publication: Victory, a frankly propagandistic picture magazine. Its publisher: the Office of War Information. Though U.S. citizens own it and are paying for it, they will never see it according to OWI; Victory is to be distributed overseas only...
...Stevens (Lionel Barrymore). Johnson seeks to conciliate the South and repair the Union; Stevens to punish the rebels. This part of the film treads on blood-soaked ground, has already aroused protests from a few Negro-philes, who revere Abolitionist Stevens as a hero. At the suggestion of the OWI, Director William Dieterle reshot some sequences to make Abolitionist Stevens a more sympathetic character...
...cold water this week when the Office of War Information released the findings of a survey on drinking in the U.S. armed forces. After gathering information from almost all U.S. camps and ports, from the adjacent "hot spots" and "sin zones," after interviewing commanding officers, provost marshals and chaplains, OWI concluded: 1) there is no excessive drinking among troops; 2) drinking is not a serious problem; 3) no American Army in history has been so well behaved. Some OWI findings...
Concluded the OWI: "This is a civilian Army, as a Selective Service Army must be. Men do not change character when they put on a uniform. If they drank as civilians, they will probably drink as soldiers-but probably not so much. If they found their fun in tawdry places as civilians, they will hunt out the tawdry places as soldiers. . . . Because Selective Service is a lottery, it produces an Army which is nothing less than a cross section of the civilian population. Such an Army is certain to enroll a small percentage of delinquents, even actual criminals. These...
Social Arbitress Emily Post informed OWI of her decision that it was all right for women war workers to go ahead and thumb rides to work. But she insisted that good taste imposes certain rules. One's identification badge is to be raised aloft instead of a thumb; only cars with B or C ration stickers should be hailed; between girl and driver "conversation is not necessary. If they must talk, they should stick to impersonal subjects." And Miss Post emphasized: "If the driver is not going in her direction, he does not stop...