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...Manhattan, Writer Gayn, who has also written for the Washington Post, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Newsweek and (for a brief period) TIME, freely admitted that he had used Government reports as background for his articles. He added that all had been cleared by censorship...
...journalist go in divulging official secrets? Top Washington newsmen, who are constantly digging for "confidential" information, began to wonder where they stood. At his press conference, Secretary Grew admitted that the State Department often classifies material "top secret" but makes it available as background for news stories. Irritated for months by leaks, the State Department still rankled over a Washington columnist's revelation last December of a secret Churchill message to General Scobie to treat Athens as a conquered city...
...underground, organized by keen, self-effacing General Tai Li, head of the Central Government's secret service. It was a battle in the dark, a focus of China's undeclared civil war, with both antagonists hunted by the Japanese, and hunting each other against a background of Japanese-inflicted misery, desolation, hunger and brutality...
With a combination of a murder and gangsters for background and a fancy roster of big names in comedy for decoration, "It's in the Bag" trailing behind Fred Allen all the way, makes its audience laugh three hours but is still only a second-rate mystery-comedy...
...event of the week took place last Saturday when E. H. Busbice became the third in our company to take the fall step. With a background of exceptionally fine organ music (courtesy of Professor Sedore) and Buz's smile the ceremony progressed very nicely until the couple rode off in J. Bryan's clatterise. Herr Walter Blatt and friend performed very, very capably as first assistants to the principals and Bob Fish sat in the audience carefully taking notes. We join with Mr. Lindsay (whose kindness was evidenced on Monday) in wishing the couple a happy career at NSCS...