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Selected Service. In Des Moines, a young man asked the draft authorities if he could do his year's training by correspondence. He was, he explained, "allergic to beans and prunes...
Last week New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia emitted an angry Donald Duck squawk. Subject: U. S. draft boards. "The trouble with the administration of the draft in New York City," quacked the Little Flower, "isn't in Washington. It's in the laundry. I think someone is using too much starch in the shirts of the administration...
...about 200 students in the enrollment of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, expected here because of the draft and the national defense effort is responsible for the rule...
Since his appointment at Brooks House this Fall, Steele has had more than seventy interviews with undergraduates puzzled with vocational problems. In addition he has answered many questions concerning the draft, in his incidental capacity as College draft expert...
...preliminary before being put on active service duty with the Army, and in order to gain a commission the Seniors must pass Mil Sci 4 and must graduate from Harvard. Those who fail these two requirements will lose their chances for a commission and will be liable for the draft...