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Such troublous facts and troubling doctrines were making double trouble last week. They were set forth in The Races of Mankind, a 46-page, 10? pamphlet published by the Public Affairs Committee, Inc., designed to fit a serviceman's pocket and to fight Nazi racial doctrines. The pamphlet was brightly written by Columbia Anthropologists Ruth Benedict and Gene Weltfish, and brightly illustrated (see cut). But U.S.O. President Chester Irving Barnard had called the pamphlet controversial and ordered the Y.M.C.A. to stop distributing it in U.S.O. clubs-after 50,000 copies had been sold...
Disgusted Donors. Bulk purchasers of the pamphlet, in addition to the Y.M.C.A., included the National Smelting Co., the Junior League, the Federal Council of Churches, the American Baptist Home Mission Society. Said the liberal, nonprofit Public Affairs Committee, which publishes The Races of Mankind: "We have had no complaints; many servicemen have written for extra copies for buddies." The Y.M.C.A. said it would distribute its remaining 10,000 copies to civilian groups. Other reactions were not so measured...
Newsmen thumbed through a new official pamphlet, stopped short at one pregnant paragraph, read it again. No, their eyes had not deceived them. The U.S. Army (in Guide to the Use of Information Materials) had given its own startling view of what the U.S. public should know...
...married T/4 in our outfit tried to pull a fast one at Widener the other day. He put in a call slip for a government pamphlet, but it didn't go through. It was for "Ration Book Number Three...
...Facts. A favorite May slogan is: "You've got to spend money to make money." May does. He floods businessmen with 10,000 pieces of direct mail daily. One of his best mailings is a persuasive, graph-studded pamphlet called "May Facts." (Typical May fact: After calling in the May Co., an unnamed war plant increased production...