To replace censor-hating Colonel Egbert White as director of the three Mediterranean editions of Stars & Stripes, the Army last week named censor-hating Captain Robert Neville, 39, onetime writer for the New York Herald Tribune, PM and TIME.
At the same time, control of Stars & Stripes was shifted from the Army Service Forces to the politically wary Bureau of Public Relations. G.I. staffmen, already alarmed by the ouster of Colonel White for attempting to bring his G.I. readers a full budget of home-front news (TIME, July 17). wondered if the brass hats were taking over in force. But they could be sure of one thing: Captain Neville would fight his hardest to keep the Army paper free of brass-hat caution, full of G.I. flavor.
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