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...Good war posters must tell their story simply, at a glance, for keeps-to plain citizens and highbrows alike. Few U.S. war posters since Pearl Harbor have done so. The majority have been ambiguous, arty, dutiful, frequently not worth the paste that held them up. These failings were long suspected even by the Government agencies whence the poster deluge has come...
Meanwhile in Washington dissatisfaction with the posters program led to coordination of all Government posters under Elmer Davis' Office of War Information. Heading a new Graphics Division is Francis E. ("Hank") Brennan, former Art editor of FORTUNE. Last week Poster-man Brennan, busy formulating his plans, was definite on one main point. Said he: "Thus far, the Government has fumbled the ball...
...story of Art for War's sake-represented since Pearl Harbor by Thomas Hart Benton's angry anti-Nazi allegories (TIME, April 6), by Government poster campaigns, by art classes in the Army-is not complete without the case of big, 50-year-old John Carroll...
...brave, young face of Pilot Officer Freeguard, 19, looked down on flaming Cologne the night 1,000 R.A.F. bombers plastered that German city with destruction. The same warrior face, on a British Ministry of Information poster, now is going to Russia above this message: "We lost 44 planes on that raid, but we are prepared to give our lives to destroy Fascism, as you are giving yours. The Fascists will not be able to stand the hell we shall give them together...
...Harper's Bazaar to start a swank whole sale dress shop. Her first spring style show was a flat flop. She tried again with a fall & winter collection. This flopped, too, and she turned to being a nurse's aide. She was the model for a recruiting poster prepared by the Office of Civilian Defense...