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Stating that the Medical School still wants quality rather than quantity, Dean Hale said that although Sophomores might apply, they would have to be in the upper third of their class, and that very few were generally taken. Third year men are becoming more numerous, as the draft slashes at the ranks of men with degrees...
Medical students, however, are not draft-deferred merely because they are in school. The third and fourth year students have been making application for Army and Navy commissions, with the understanding that they could finish their work before joining the forces. First and second year men are doing the same more and more, since they also are eligible to apply for a commission...
While the draft boards pondered ways of tightening up on deferred "borderline cases," many an artful dodger was busy. The FBI was investigating a nationwide deferment mill that promised 1-A-men that it would shove them into Government jobs before the Army nabbed them. In Lafayette, Ind. a 25-year-old named Chester Cleon Hill looked like the dodger-of-the-year. A grand jury indicted him for taking so many benzedrine sulfate tablets before his Army physical examination that he trembled his way into deferment...
Many a U.S. citizen lost a job, a good salary and his Federal old-age insurance protection when the draft picked him up. So did civilians who went to work for the U.S. in Navy Yards, arsenals...
Braggart. In Albuquerque, N. Mex., Daniel Jones wrote on his draft questionnaire: "I murdered a man." Arrested, he explained that he had lied because he wanted to be a sergeant, understood that the Army liked its men hardboiled...