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Coningham for Immediacy. The Tactical Air Force is under the command of Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, formerly the Eighth Army's brilliant air officer. It is, said General Spaatz, designed for "immediate results." Its job is to attack, with fighters and light and medium bombers, enemy troops, transport, airports and battle planes. One day last week, Air Marshal Coningham sent Marauders and Spitfires against 28 Axis planes parked on Oudna Field, south of Tunis; Hurri-bombers, Spitfires and Bostons against one large concentration of Afrika Korps vehicles; and Warhawks against another...
...years ago even so small a controversy would probably have sent Columbia Pictures scurrying off in a huff. For years Hollywood looked upon radio as a poor relation in the field of showmanship, did not consider it seriously as an advertising medium. But World War II has begun to change all that...
Techniques and Truths in Wartime. The democratic governments have had to explain themselves to their people, and to retain public approval of their conduct of the war, through the medium of a press, in Britain and in America, intensely, sometimes childishly, jealous of its independence. These governments have likewise had to undertake political warfare, i.e. propaganda, with the aid of information men who by habit and training have no party-or perhaps the other party-and prefer breaking a story to following a line...
Universal Pictures. No medium of communication is more promising than pictures. Printed news has a strong tendency to be news of the abnormal or disastrous events of life; the camera's patient eye finds equal fascination in the characteristic doings of people, the enduring and mysterious images of places. Already a supranational language of entertainment, the cinema and the news photograph, with television, may in the future become a world-teaching art which artists of all nations may practice...
...slumped in the barber chair and looked into the big mirror. A blank, "How'd you like it, sir? Short? Medium? Long?--The barber's cagerly flat voice jarred him out of the void...