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When Stimson stepped out, his right-hand man stepped up. By promoting earnest, dull and difficult Bob Patterson, President Truman made sure of continuity in War Department policy during the troublous demobilization months, the Pearl Harbor inquiry, the coming battle over the armed forces merger...
...this last and most troublous question of all, two of the oldest and foxiest independent moviemakers last week gave an answer that may give other independents an idea. To insure a Broadway outlet for their productions, Producers Samuel Goldwyn* and David Selznick leased Manhattan's famed, 40-year-old, 1,140-seat Astor Theater from the owner-operator, City Investing Co. Major C. I. request:" Goldwyn & Selznick keep the Astor as well supplied with pictures as did former tenant Loew...
...some less troublous time, TIME'S truth-delvers may accept Host Billingsley's invitation...
...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...
...explained: "We. felt the authors, Mr. Pearson and Mr. Allen, were too anxious to print . . . matters which would offend the censor and possibly give aid and comfort to our enemies. . . . These young men are good reporters. They are honest and conscientious but just a shade too enterprising for these troublous times...