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...chief of OFF, Franklin Roosevelt picked his friend Poet Archibald MacLeish,* Librarian of Congress, who occasionally helps draft a White House speech. To help him ferret out his facts & figures, Director MacLeish will have blond, chub-cheeked Captain Robert Kintner, who gave up a lucrative Washington column (with Joseph Alsop, just resigned from the Navy) to take an Army commission, and rich, personable Lieut. Barry Bingham (son of the late Ambassador to Britain Robert Worth Bingham), who gave up his job as publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal for a commission in the Navy...
...Selective Service System had disquieting news to report last week about the health of the nation. Last spring SSS had reported that 40% of the men examined for the draft had been rejected for physical defects. Last week's report, the result of a more thorough survey, upped the percentage of rejections to 50%. One man in every two had to be turned down for such causes as bad teeth (20.9%), substandard eyes (13.7%), heart and circulatory troubles (10.6%), venereal diseases (6.3%). The President took note, hinted that the Civilian Conservation Corps might undertake a program...
Contrary to implication in the CRIMSON'S story on the Seven-Year Law Plan last Thursday, no official ruling has yet been announced guaranteeing participants in the program an A.B. degree in case the draft prevents them from continuing their work...
...picture with Leslie Howard about Reginald Joseph Mitchell, designer of the Spitfire. New recruits in the U.S. Naval Reserve : Wendell Willkie's son, Philip, and Dodger Boss Lorry MacPhail's son, William. Cleveland discovered that Pitcher Bob Feller, 22, who had passed his physical examination for the draft, had been taking flying lessons for three weeks. Vichy announced that the centennial of World War I Premier Georges Clemenceau's birth (Sept. 28, 1841) would be ignored. Same day the burial place chosen by Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain was announced: the tomb at Douaumont where Verdun...
Dodo was a railroad-station information clerk until the draft reaped him. His phenomenal memory makes Army Regulations nothing but a brief mnemonic exercise. An apparent intellect in the ranks so terrifies Dodo's superiors that they make him a sergeant in self-defense. From there on in, his way is paved with slapstick...