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Class IV. In Jemez Pueblo, N. Mex., Indian medicine freshmen claimed exemption from the draft as theological students...
...late John D., is big (6 ft. 2 in.), husky (215 lb.), moonfaced, affable. Like many a less wealthy American, he started college (Yale), but did not finish. He worked as a roughneck in Texas oil fields, then got an office job with Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. In the draft lottery he drew an order number in the safe 6,000s. He liked his job all right, but, like many another young man of high & low degree, he volunteered...
...more than 4,000 trained psychiatrists, concentrated in a few areas. Chief problem of the Army, in its effort to keep out wackies, is how to divide 4,000 by 6,253 draft boards. Chief brooder over this tricky psycho-arithmetic problem is redhaired, chunky Colonel Leonard George Rowntree of Philadelphia Institute for Medical Research. Colonel Rowntree's best solution to date: a group of 600 psychiatrists delegated to medical advisory boards in about 50 key cities. These psychiatrists conduct two-day seminars in various regions to tip off local board physicians to neurotic danger signals. As an example...
...Santa Clara County, Calif. draft board put 23-year-old Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, father of two, in Class 1, because of his financial means, then gave him a 90-day leave to tour South America...
...time of his death Fitzgerald had completed an outline and 37,000 words of Draft No. 1, which he expected to finish within a month. Friends were sure The Love of the Last Tycoon would be published in some form, perhaps under some other title...