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News from Bowmanville. To the considerable list of items which the U.S. press must treat "with discretion," OWI last week, for the first time, added the whole subject of prisoners of war. The prisoners immediately concerned in this ruling were not the American flyers in Japan, but German prisoners in Canada...
...Frank Loesser's Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition! (inspired by a Navy Chaplain's historic remark as he manned an anti-aircraft gun at Pearl Harbor) had become so popular that the Office of War Information feared the public would tire of it prematurely. The OWI requested broadcasters to limit its performance to once every four hours instead of once every two. Sample stanzas...
...This, featuring Winston Churchill's son-in-law, Vic Oliver; and a revival of Rose-Marie, a Broadway favorite of the '20s. Americans in Britain damn London's musicals as miles below U.S. standards, and former N.Y. Herald Tribune Critic Richard Watts Jr., now with the OWI in Eire, comes down just as hard on the London productions of straight plays he saw on Broadway...
Soap opera went to work for the Government this week, on a grandiose double-life basis worked out by OWI. The scheme...
...business at their same old spot, with the same old plots. In addition they will put on an entirely different show each day, using the same characters beloved of millions of housewives but involved in entirely different adventures. What these new Government-inspired adventures will be is up to OWI. But listeners who never get enough of CBS's Our Gal Sunday will be able to follow her breathless career as usual at 12:45 p.m. E.W.T., earlier that day (at 9:45 a.m. E.W.T.) they may follow her in a story promoting OWI's "Message...