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...Hampshire, Tom Dewey now apparently had plucked off 25 votes without seeming effort. With a neat bit of stagecraft timing, Joe Hanley, Dewey's faithful Lieutenant Governor, turned up in North Carolina to keynote the state's Republican convention. Forthwith, delegates with whoop & holler voted unanimously to "draft" New York's cagey Governor...
Presly S. Anheuser, 32-year-old beer scion, father of two, was indicted for camouflaging himself against the draft in farmer's overalls. Owner of a 520-acre farm in Hawk Point, Mo. he was charged by a federal grand jury with obtaining a 3 C classification (agricultural deferment) by filing a false report on the number of his livestock...
Trouble Ahead. But even before Joe Eastman died the railroads feared disaster in 1944. Reason: by January the railroads had lost 270,000 employes to the armed services-over 20% of their prewar employment total. They now have 100,000 jobs open and no takers. Worse, by June the draft will have blown away another...
Last month Manhattan's small, exclusive Dial Press announced that it would soon publish the original version of one of the century's most blush-provoking literary works. This hitherto unpublished draft of Lady Chatterley's Lover, the late David Herbert Lawrence's distinguished novel about a titled lady who deserted her aristocratic but impotent husband for the family gamekeeper, will be issued next month in a first printing of 15,000 copies at $2.75 the copy...
...known. He had been divorced, had married his wife again (they have two boys, aged ten and eight). At the La Crosse police station are 15 entries against his name. Among them: attempted suicide, drunk & disorderly conduct, larceny. He was serving a 90-day sentence for vagrancy when his draft board called him up. The police let him out to join the Army...