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With him will go Gardner Cowles, Elmer Davis' associate in the OWI, and brother of John Cowles, who accompanied Willkie to England; and Joseph Barnes, former Moscow correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, now chief of the International Press and Radio Bureau of OWI's Overseas Branch...
...pound Army private named Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was making a great hit last week with A.E.F. boys all over the globe. In a new short-wave act called G.I.* Jive, short-waved from the Manhattan studios of OWI to all U.S. Army bases overseas. Master of Ceremonies Ives's friendly small talk, familiar recordings and songs on the git-tar were just what the first sergeant ordered...
...OWI would originate few press releases, would mostly pass on those issued by other agencies...
...OWI will not try to do any censorship-that is the job of Censor Byron Price...
They laid out three overall divisions. Gardner Cowles Jr., absent-eyed but able publisher of the Des Moines Register and Tribune and Look, president of Iowa Broadcasting Co., a new face on the official Washington scene, was brought in to head the OWI branch on domestic news. Sad-faced, elongated Playwright Robert Sherwood takes over the dissemination of over seas news. Archibald MacLeish, whose OFF had been swallowed up in the reorganization, becomes head of the "Policy Development Branch." His job: relationships between OWI, the policy-forming officials of Federal agencies, and between OWI and representatives of the United Nations...