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Cornell shapes up as the class of Harvard's opponents with an exceptionally fine freshman crew from last year to go on. Navy was expected to be powerful, as she has been untouched by the draft, but her defeat by Columbia on the Harem last week upset some of the dope in that direction. Penn, who has not yet raced, may turn up with almost anything, with the advantage of being on home waters on her side...
Anticlimactically ended was the well-publicized case of balding, bespectacled Bandsman Kay Kyser v. the draft. Turned down on his 1-A appeal, despite OWI-backing for his efforts as a war-bond hawker, the 36-year-old swingster was turned down by Army physicians (hernia and arthritis...
...felt the pinch because of this 25% reduction in the proposed program. But troops in training have, are now at best only 50% equipped. And prospects for improvement are dim under WPB's rules and industry's performance. Battle is eating up ground force weapons and the draft is pouring in millions more men who must be equipped. But production of ground-force weapons rose only 3% in February, 8% in March, and an estimated 5% in April...
Unfortunately the shame-criers won the fight just when the wolf-criers finally be gan to be right. Most notable example of cutting below bedrock: farm equipment, where a WPB order cutting production to 20% of 1940 coincided with a draft and wage policy that drained workers off the farm and a farm-production policy that called for astronomical quantities of food. This manifest absurdity received only piecemeal attention until the U.S. food situation had assumed near-crisis proportions...
...bright Army recruit could reasonably tell himself that he had a pretty good chance of being commissioned an officer. But times have changed. Throughout the country's training camps last week many an aspiring soldier was learning that the process is no longer easy. Men now facing the draft are likely to learn that the chances of a commission are even slimmer...