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...subject was OWI's proposed budget of $100,000,000 - "a tidy sum which should make us an arsenal of adjectives, producing an abundance of words and phrases for domestic consumption, with a mighty surplus for lend-lease to the Allies." What really inspired him, though, was a new opportunity to rib "Brother" Archibald MacLeish-"bereaved parent of the always late and never lamented Office of Facts and Figures...
Describing a "pep talk" given by MacLeish to OWI field officers at Washington's swank Carlton Hotel, O'Donnell printed in full the $6-a-plate menu, smacked his lips over "a bar with Martini, Manhattan and Daiquiri cocktails, plus scotch highballs for a starter, a dry white wine with the fish, a sturdy burgundy with the meat and all topped off with coffee and liqueurs, cigars and cigarets." Afterwards a "visiting fireman of war information" remarked: "And now I'm supposed to go back home and tell them we all must sacrifice and reduce our standard...
...straight-faced OWI press release last week was the first public sign of a war production scandal that has long seethed underground in Washington. The brief announcement said only that Colonel Charles R. Baxter of Army Ordnance had been made Chief of a new Materials Redistribution Branch of WPB, successor to the Inventory & Requisitioning Branch. But it meant that after ten wasted months the U.S. was finally going to do something about frustrated freight...
...first U.S. press attaché for Eire, former New York Herald Tribune Drama Critic Richard Watts Jr., who will also represent OWI in Dublin. Unique among drama critics, Watts spent his summers investigating China, Russia, other hot spots, filing dispatches to his paper...
Strong right arm of the Bureau of Campaigns is the non-Governmental Advertising Council, a wartime mobilization of national advertisers, agencies and media. Until OWI set up the Bureau, the Council dealt directly with the Government departments. Now the Bureau is official agent...