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...Director of National Service ascertains shortages of workers and, if volunteers are too few, calls on draft boards to make up the required numbers...
...Local draft boards rule on selectees' claims to take their families with them, at Government expense; they also decide claims for exemption because of undue hardship...
...last three months U.S. draft boards failed to meet the quotas of the armed forces. Last week the Selective Service system told Congress what it proposed to do: turn the heat on, double its dips into U.S. manpower...
...constantly kids the formalities of human discourse ('"Dat's da conditions dat prevail!'"). He is a relentless lampooner of high society who, in his nightclubs, has often suddenly leered over an especially low neckline with a solicitous '"Pardon me, madame, dew you feel a draft?'" Jimmy's own show business takes a constant beating from him. Perhaps the subtlest of all his comic achievements is his parody of the way in which many people from his own proletarian background maltreat the culture they so earnestly desire to achieve. A great deal of his highest...
...Maquet brought Dumas the rough draft of a novel about a Guardsman named D'Artagnan. The Three Musketeers had been born...