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...week's end, testimony ended, the Post Office's three-man Board of Judges (Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Walter Myers, First Deputy Assistant Thomas Cargill, Chief Clerk Frank Ellis) retired to draft their recommendation-either that Esquire's second-class (cheaper rate) mailing privileges be revoked, or that the magazine be absolved...
...said he was a family man. To his draft board in Poinsett County, Ark. he presented a letter...
Joseph Curran, boss of C.I.O.'s National Maritime Union, won a draft reclassification from 1-A to 2-A (deferred for six months as a necessary civilian) on an appeal to the Presidential board in Washington. That put him back where he had been before his New York City appeal board had reclassified him-and it carried him well beyond his 38th birthday next March...
Judge Charles Henry Cooper, 70-year-old father of Cinemactor Gary Cooper. The draft board that sent him his induction notice discovered it had summoned the wrong Charles Henry Cooper when the septuagenarian strode in and cried: "Well, here I am; when do I leave...
...with the cause and extent of the problem than with the cure. The film shows the lack of emotional security in homes robbed of their parents by war plants and rocked by the immeasurable restiveness created by war itself. Babies wake screaming in siren-haunted blackouts. Boys just below draft age go on alcohol, marijuana and obscene-book jags, shrug off the discipline of parents who earn no more than they do. Mothers find it next to impossible to advise teen-age daughters who, erotically, are almost as experienced as Mother...