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...Democrats, three terms had indeed made F.D.R. an indispensable man. In 1940 the Party had to be drafted to nominate its leader. Now the Democrats seemed desperate to draft...
...Draft? But to draft F.D.R. looked like an increasingly tough job. The President, tireless Drew Pearson informed the U.S., might want to be exempted on grounds of his indispensability for world peace. "Whether he would be president of a League of United Nations, or American representative on it, is a detail." The main thing, Pearson thought he knew, was that Mr. Roosevelt's next personal Four-Year Plan reached beyond the national scene...
...frustrated American males last night came relief in the form of a Newark draft board, which dourly foureffed America's big noise of the year, a loved-up character known as Frank Sinatra to most and Oooooofrankie to a select few who poured over $6,000 in the till of the R.K.O. Boston last week when crooner Sinatra came to sample of the bean...
...libelous few to consist entirely of 98 pounds of tubercular lung, was rejected for a complaint many of his listeners spotted back in the summer: a punctured ear drum. Thus, as it must come to all men, lost hope came to Frank, who had fondly confided in a draft board teacher that he wanted to be a marine...
...from prep school on. When he first came up for the Army physical, Tufts was classified 1-B. He asked what that might mean. "It means," snarled a sergeant, "you can relieve one WAC for active service." The next time up, Sonny again recited his litany of disabilities. A draft official asked, "What do you do?" Tufts said that he worked for Paramount. "Oh," nodded the official, "stunt man." Said an attendant, as Tufts went out, a 4-F for keeps: "Don't sneeze, Bud, when you're going down the stairs. You might fall apart...