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...grown from four officers, ten clerks to 18 officers, 40 clerks since Aug. 1. Of Marshall's stamp are others in Army's publicity apparatus (now being reorganized)-Major General Robert Richardson of the Cavalry; Lieut. Colonel Ward Maris of Field Artillery, no newsman but a discerning publicist of small patience with bureaucrats; Major Art Ennis of the Air Corps; Lieut. Colonel Ginsburgh, liaison officer between Under Secretary of War Patterson and the public, graduate of Harvard University, ex-reporter on the New York Morning World...
...George Creel, California publicist and organizer of public opinion for the Wilson Administration during World...
...called a press agent. He had raised his voice for democracy before, as a member of the U. S. Committee on Public Information (propaganda) in World War I. Since then he has ably publicized electricity, soap, refrigerators, sea food, written a book on propaganda, become a leading publicist. Three months ago, having concluded that democracy was in grave danger of going under by default, he decided to start a publicity campaign in its behalf. First broadside in his campaign was an article in Current History outlining a program for patriots. Last fortnight Mr. Bernays expanded the article into a book...
Stepping warily around these network hazards, Publicist Louis G. Cowan, who conceived the program, managed to make the quizzes entertaining adult stuff. Questions flung at the tiny intelligentsia were selected by TIME'S Chicago News Bureau chief, Sidney James, who was interlocutor for the Quiz Kids until NBC deposed him on the ground that his magazine connection made him too much of a rival for Clifton Fadiman...
Ellery Queen, as the vast U. S. crime club well knows, is the pen name of two quirky fictioneers named Manfred Lee and Frederic Dannay, cousins who look as much alike as oboe players. Ten years ago Manny was a movie publicist, Fred an ad agency man. Now their Ellery Queen's published adventures stack 16 volumes high, he has been in the movies, on the stage, on the lecture platform, and this year in radio he has been both actor (on MBS's Author, Author) and writer...