One of the best war dramas on the air got its first sponsor last week. The drama is CBS's five-month-old sustainer, The Man Behind the Gun. The sponsor is Elgin National Watch Co., now fully converted to war work (precision instruments) and willing to tell about it.
The Man Behind the Gun was not designed for commercial exploitation. It was built to convey to Americans at home a graphic picture of what their boys on the fighting fronts were up against, of the weapons they were using, the combat tactics involved. The show took...