Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Only group that will actually count in the draft for many months is Class 1-A (single, physically fit, not at work in "necessary" industries). The board may have to send out several sets of questionnaires to get enough Class 1-A registrants for its quotas. In a factory area, for instance, many holders of low order numbers on the national list may be classified in "necessary" occupations and thus deferred. Result: in such an area a registrant with an order number above 1,000 may find himself called ahead of his neighbor, with No. 20. Last week registrants could...
...days later Pressureman Papen, much happier than he was a year ago when Turkey jilted Germany for the Allies, was reported on a shooting party with Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Italy's Count Galeazzo Ciano. (This was denied in Berlin.) Whatever plans the Axis had for Turkey in the future, the threat of German action through Bulgaria, if Turkey should help Greece, was enough to keep Turkey precariously neutral last week. President Inönü made a firm speech saying that his country would "continue faithful to our friendships and alliances" (Turkey...
NEWS AND NEW REALEASES: Via airmail from New York: Count Basic will disband his orchestra and join Benny Goodman unless he is released from his contract with MCA. Right now the Count is on the road with Benny . . . Record of the week: Wings Over Manbattan by Charles Barnet (BLUEBIRD), and "atmosphere" tune on the line of Rhapsody in Blue. Very imaginative arranging of sophisticated melodic patterns built around the 32 bar theme. . . For a girl vocal trio that really swings (Andrews Sisters please note), listen to the Dandridge Sisters with Jinunie Lunceford on Red Wagon and You Ain't Nowhere...
John M. London '41, president of the Roosevelt Club, also smiled broadly as he predicted victory for the Donkey. He didn't stop with the paltry 22 states which the Republicans count on, but blandly reeled off 28 states which will certainly cast their ballots for the Democrats, and ten more which may very well do the same...
...vote of the Business School Faculty, which was not recorded in Friday's count, had much to do with the maintaining of W.W.'s majority, as it was 56 for Willkie and two for the former CRIMSON president. Belated Freshman ballots contributed to Roosevelt strength, however...