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...excitement of choosing Tom Dewey over Harold Stassen (see Republicans), Portland voters did not forget that they were also electing a mayor. Last week they rose up against flashy, cigar-chewing Earl Riley, who had been picked by the OWI as a "typical U.S. mayor" and sent on a wartime mission to Britain (TIME, Sept. 13, 1943). In Riley's place they named-for the first time in the city's history-a woman...
Professor Fairbank, an international authority on China and Chinese problems, is the author of the forthcoming book, "The United States and China." During the war he served on the staffs of OSS and OWI, and in 1945 and 1946 was director of U.S. Information Service in China...
...University of London's King's College and has batted around the world for 20 years as a student, a researcher for the Institute of Pacific Relations, and a journalist. A prewar Herald Tribune correspondent in Moscow and Berlin, he was a deputy director of OWI's overseas operations, a fellow traveler on Willkie's "one world" flight, and translator of Soviet Novelist Konstantin Simonov's Days and Nights...
...women, and an obvious attraction to them. He makes a point of telling friends that he never looks in mirrors, even to shave, says, "I hate my face." Friends who went with him to see the first showing of The Hymn of the Nations, the movie he made for OWI during the war, said he looked away self-consciously whenever his image came on the screen. But he dresses fastidiously, is visibly pleased when a friend remarks on a new coat or suit (most of which he still has made for him in Italy...
...charge of retrenching was hefty Edd Johnson, a veteran newsman (New York World-Telegram, Cottier's, CBS, OWI), who returned a year ago from three years as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Sun syndicate. Last summer he was hired by the New Republic for eight weeks of editorial doctoring, stayed on as managing editor at Straight's request. Johnson started to trim the editorial budget from $420,000 a year to $240,000. Then Straight asked that a group of lower-bracket employees (19, said Johnson) be lopped off. Johnson countered: Why not get rid of some...