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Last week the long, leveling hand of the draft reached out for many a young man with a big name. Henry Ford II, 23, and his brother Benson, 21, due for early "call in Detroit, made no demurrers of the kind which kept their father Edsel at home (working at war materials...
Cinemactor Jimmy Stewart gorged himself up to Army weight, was told he would be called this month (his Los Angeles draft board had previously found him 10 lb. underweight-TIME, Feb. 17). Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes's grandson Henry Stuart Hughes quit the Brown University faculty (history), joined the 103rd Field Artillery from Rhode Island. Draft Prospect William McChesney Martin Jr., 34, promised to resign his presidency of the New York Stock Exchange when he is called in May (see p. 78). Jaded, faded Jackie Coogan, 26, got his Hollywood board to draft him ahead of his normal...
...draft touched many more whose names were important chiefly to themselves. Culling the 800,000 who were to be conscripted by June, the 213,000 who had been called up to last week, draft boards throughout the U. S. had many a laugh, some tears, an insight into the small crises, braveries, trepidations of upset lives...
...Local draft boards have caused much complaint with their conflicting rulings on married registrants. The Gruman board policy makes more sense than most: the board uses the draft to solve unhappy marriages, does not draft the happily married. Example: a registrant whose wife appeared in a swank fur coat, said she had a job as a model, could hardly wait until her husband was in the Army and out of her sight. He was drafted...
...MacKinney, left end; Chub Pexbody, left guard; Burgy Ayres, center; Dick Pflster, right quard; Tom Gardiner, right tackle; George Helden, quarterback; and captain-elect Frannie Lee will probably return next year. Bill Brown, Joe Kaufman, and Pete Elser are Seniors, and Charley Spreyer, expects to be called by the draft in June...