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...Last week he finally summoned 52-year-old Elmer Davis to the White House, told him without fuss & feathers that he had been drafted for the job. Calm Mr. Davis, who dislikes fuss & feathers, took the President's order calmly. Two days later he made his last news broadcast. Two days after that he went to work in Washington...
...Forthright Elmer Davis knows what confusion has thus far been wrought in World War II. Said he, in a March broadcast: "The whole Government publicity situation has everybody in the news business almost in despair, with half a dozen different agencies following different lines. . . . Under one head, with real power, they might get somewhere. . . . Objection has been made that it might be hard to pick the man to head them. But almost anybody would be better than half a dozen heads...
Elmer Davis likes to say that his broadcasts are successful because his voice "sounds like it came from back home." When he went on the air for the last time, he ended, without fuss & feathers: "This is my last broadcast as I have been called into Government service...
...Roosevelt, in a broadcast over the Crimson Network, urged students to remain in college, and the many deferment plans organized by the Navy and Army suggested to the undergraduates that college was the best place for them...
During the summer the Network intends to broadcast two and one half hours per evening, four nights a week. Stress will be laid on classical music programs, to which an hour and twenty-five minutes will be devoted each evening...