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When an entertainer who is born on the 4th of July takes that as his cue to make himself a one-man patriotic holiday, he's bound to turn out to be an intriguing character. And when a vigorously produced and directed movie is based on his career, top-flight entertainment is the result. George M. Cohan is such a character: "Yankee Doodle Dandy" is such a film, and the sum total is just what might be expected...
Featuring top-flight speakers from all branches of Civilian Defense, the second session of the Harvard Air Raid Precautions School will get under way tonight at 7 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall...
...Organized a British Council of Churches, whose 112 Anglican, Presbyterian and Nonconformist members will serve as "an official representative organization for common planning and action." The closest counterpart is America's Federal Council of Churches-which again has never had such a galaxy of top-flight sponsorship...
These three appointments amount to the installation of a new top management in WPB. To neat, hardboiled, balding Ferd Eberstadt, who has done a top-flight job of handling military schedules and priorities on the Munitions Board, falls the key job of setting WPB's sights on all production except rubber. To factory-wise Charlie Wilson falls the job of meeting the goals that Eberstadt sets. And to Steelman Batcheller falls the particular responsibility of meeting the key goal, steel production...
Wilson will head a new production committee made up of all the top-flight military production men: General Somervell; Major General Oliver P. Echols, chief of Army Air Forces materiel; Vice Admiral Samuel M. Robinson, chief of Navy procurement; and Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery, vice chairman of the Maritime Commission. The committee has orders to meet at least twice a week-the closest tie between military and civilian directors of the war effort that has yet been attempted...