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Most of the arrivals were happy ones. A typical war bride: Mrs. Jack Sherwood. She met her husband, a gunner, at a hospital dance in Colchester, England, where she was a volunteer nurse, he a convalescent. They were married before he returned to Canada to be mustered out of the Army. Their reunion in Toronto included five-month-old John, whom the father had never seen...
...Handed the OWI intra-bureau warfare (TIME, Feb. 7) right back to OWI. He told OWI Boss Elmer Davis and Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, head of OWI's Overseas Branch, to settle it themselves. The settlement this week: Bob Sherwood's three top men in New York-Newsman Joseph Barnes, Economist James Warburg, Editorial Chief Edd Johnson-resigned; Sherwood will go to London. This seemed a clean-out victory for Elmer Davis-his first in 20 months...
Tail-wagging. The debate appeared to be over whether the tail should be allowed to wag the dog. Tweedy, twangy Elmer Davis once headed a twin-sized domestic & foreign organization. Now the Overseas Branch, headed by Robert Emmet Sherwood, 47, the lank three-time Pulitzer Playwright, has about 97% of all OWI employes. The overseas budget is $34 million; the domestic is $2½ million. As a friend and speech-doctor to Franklin Roosevelt, Sherwood has easy entry to the White House. Davis, presumably the nation's No. 1 news dispenser, is not even close. All the U.S. remembers...
...clash between Davis and Sherwood started in Manhattan, spread to London, and focused in Washington. The men who actually guide OWI Overseas-newsman Joseph Barnes, economist James Warburg, editorial chief Edd Johnson-operate OWI's vertiginous New York office. Their job: to tell the truth, but not the whole truth about the U.S. to its friends and enemies, and to neutrals abroad. (News of U.S. strikes, for example, is not sent.) Critics have accused the Manhattan psychological warriors of being leftish, of being faction-ridden...
...this was not what angered Davis at Sherwood's Manhattan trio. He accused them of running their own show instead of carrying out the weekly Washington "directives" on how to slant news for overseas. Eight weeks ago, the London office's three best men quit over the same issue. Davis ordered Sherwood to fire Barnes, Warburg and Johnson. Sherwood refused. Forthwith Davis put the whole problem in Franklin Roosevelt...