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Meantime Ingersoll got the impression that one member of his draft board would be just as well satisfied if PM were not around. Boiling over, Editor Ingersoll wrote a 6,000-word letter to the board. He also spread it over three pages in PM. From such widely divergent sources as the Communist Daily Worker, the conservative New York Herald Tribune, Editor & Publisher came editorials ranging from question to damnation of the board's decision...
...printed them all, along with the gibes of the Hearst and Patterson-McCormick press, the full texts of radio commentators. For several days headlines about Ingersoll and Draft Board 44 all but drove the war off PM's front page. The draft board, reconsidering its decision, reaffirmed it, by a 2-to-1 vote...
...case in his own paper. Yet all of them knew that, for better or for worse, Editor Ingersoll had given PM its character and direction-just as truly as Bertie McCormick has to the isolationist Chicago Tribune or Joe Patterson to the New York Daily News-and that to draft him was a blow at a wing of the press which also has a right to freedom and continued existence...
...inarticulate draft board, the saddest parts of the pother were that Ingersoll had told it he would not permit his employer to ask for his deferment, that Marshall Field's telegram to General Hershey was filed late and out of order, that the board had never been favored with proof of Field's claim that his editor was indispensable. Nonetheless the case was sent up to an Appeal Board, while PM still fulminated...
Last week the one man in Congress who knows more about the draft than any other-Senator Robert Taft of Ohio-was striving valiantly to help Selective Service make things plain. The difficulty is in interpreting the revision of the draft law which Congress recently passed to set up clearer standards of selection...