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...exercises will be open to the public without charge, though tickets for reserved seats may be obtained from the Corresponding Secretary, Assistant Dean R. H. Phelps, University Hall. A luncheon for members and their male guests will be served in the Warburg Room of the Fogg Museum beginning at 12:30 o'clock...
...Among them: Critic Walter Pach, Cellist Gerald Warburg, James Gerard (former U.S. Ambassador to Germany), Artist Constantin Ala-jalov, Correspondent William Shirer, Actress Constance Collier, Composer Howard Dietz, Actor Oscar (Jacobowsky) Karlweiss, Singer Lucrezia Bori...
...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...
...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...
...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...