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...State Department's Office of Transport and Communications Policy and chief spokesman for the postwar Air Coordinating Committee; Arthur Whiteside, president of Dun & Bradstreet and frequent adviser to Government agencies; Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt, energetic publisher of the Denver Post, onetime head of the domestic branch of OWI...
After 17 years of commercial lithography and another 17 years of intermittent struggle, Shahn has become the country's most successful practitioner of protest painting. His art is so close to propaganda that some of his pictures have been converted into posters (for the OWI, the War Department and the C.I.O.) simply by the addition of lettering. Like most propaganda art, Shahn's suffers from sameness of theme, but sometimes it offers a concise pictorial report as well as a message. Shahn learned to draw the hard way; when he was growing up in Brooklyn, the local toughs...
Many of the tales are set in Washington, where the author spent part of the war in the OWI. They gleam with tarnished Army brass, crawl with Army wives as loose as granny knots. The Captain's Tiger will add little to Weidman's reputation, shows that even tough-guy fiction can be written to a formula as predictable as slick-paper romance...
Before joining the OWI in 1942, he worked for the United Press in North China and later for the New York Times, and the Time and Life bureaus in that section of the East...
...Whose brother Milton, now president of Kansas State, is no professional scholar either, but a former OWI executive & longtime Department of Agriculture official...