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Right now they only have 104 would-be lawyers. But the Faculty has announced its intention of keeping on in spite of the draft and other forms of war work which have absorbed a large part of its students and 20 out of its peacetime staff of 30 full professors. Most prominent of the faculty to leave thus far has been Dean James M. Landis, who left a year ago to head the office of Civilian Defense in Washington...
Eager. In Charlotte, N.C., a draft board got a letter: "I have wrote the board two are three time for my paper and I have not heard them yet. I would love to know what in the hell is the meadow. I wish you would hurry and send for me to stand my examination for my hand is burnin to shuit a gun. Have you lost my wrecked are what I want, my class card, please. I am looking to hear it soon...
Where the draft was coming from no one could guess. In 1940 many an Administration bigwig, and some citizens, demanded that the President run again. This political year had seen the President drafted only by Illinois's aged (76) Representative Adolph J. Sabath (TIME, March 1) and by West Virginia's Governor Matthew M. Neely, overwhelmingly repudiated by his State's voters in last autumn's election and since defeated in his State Legislature on every turn...
Elsewhere in Wonderland arose the question of cinemacting's importance in total war. Raising the question was Metro Goldwyn-Mayer, who appealed the i-A draft classification of Mickey Rooney-first such appeal made by the industry. Grounds: he is an essential worker in an essential industry. Rooney's mother made it plain that her son was not doing the appealing himself. "It is true that he is only five feet tall, and has been bothered with heart flutter and high blood pressure," said she, "but Mickey wouldn't try to dodge his classification." Said Mickey...
...Army he led a pack artillery mule at Ft. Bragg for a year, and then was shifted to public relations. He wrote "Caught in the Draft" for the Post and became friendly with Private Marion Hargrove, who was assigned to Yank as soon as it was organized last spring. Then for weeks on end Hargrove annoyed Major Spence to call up McCarthy as sports editor for the new weekly...