The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-08


 that up and now lives in hotel. The crowd around the OCD head quarters say he burns more mid night oil in his office than almost any other executive.
 His office is just another room in what used to be small suite in the DuPont Circle Apartments. His staff is seven people, two New York, five in Washington, including two assist ants and three secretaries and clerks. Everybody gets paid except the boss, who draws only $10 day subsistence, when he works.
 The Douglas bureau in OCD has been rechristened from the $40 War Council of the Arts" to the humber and much more effective two- bits s-including- title of "Vol- unteer Talents Unit" And if you have talents that can be put to use to help your country win the war, this is the place where they can be put to work. Conversely, if you want talent, this is the place to get it. IMPRESSIVE
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 The list of major activities and accomplishments of this Volunteer Talents Unit in the past six months, since MT. Douglas took over, fills several pages and 1t covers odd jobs done in the fields of writing, art and entertainment.
 Here are few typical exhibits:
 For the Army Air Force, the VTU lined up writers to compose slogans write articles and even fiction pulp licizing the flying service. It got peo- pie like Dorothy Thompson, Vincent Sheehan, Katherine Brush and Ed na Furber. Similar jobs were done for the Signal Corps.
 It talked Rodgers and Hart and others into writing bombardier songs.
 For the oPA, the Douglas oflce had Janet Flanner prepare a speech on price rehabilitation. This was sent to state and local defense councils for the use of local
 For the Treasury's war bond campaign, volunteer talent wrote some 300 slogans, and prepared minute-man speeches.
 Mary Roberts Rinehart, J. P. Marquand, Elmer Davis and others of that stripe wrote 'em articles for Our America" and Stephen Vincent Benet wrote a half-hour script for network broadcast on the anniversary of the German book burning.
 Whooping up holidays has been one of the biggest activities of the volunteers. For the United Ma tions celebration on June IA, 1t was the Douglas office which lined up Eric Barnow to do 15-minute radio sketch for local production. Maxwell Anderson prepared a pageant for local community use. Nearly 10000 copies of these two opuseS were distributed.
 The Hollywood Writers Mobiliz- ation Committee has kicked in with a lot of this preparation of scen- arios and scripts for local use, too. ACTIVE
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 Another theater effort has been in preparing scripts for USO camp shows.
 Margaret Leech wrote & speech on Lincoln which Raymond Mas sey delivered on Memorial Day.
 Foreign language writers have been lined up to help with the propaganda efforts of the Of1ce of War Information.
 The art activities include or ganizing the preparation of dis plays for the Pan-American Child Congress, and conventions like the American Medical Association, the Lions and the Kiwanis. Displays of other kinds - posters, photo- graphs, dioramas and such = have gone into Pratt Institute, Cooper Union, Carnegie Tech, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco and Cleveland Art Museums.
 All these activities are of course necessary to help win the war.