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...Runyon quoted odds of 9-to-5 that the major leagues would not be able to play out their 1943 schedules. Already some 225 of last year's 400 major leaguers had gone into the services. Nobody, not even Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt, knew how soon local draft boards would call the elderly and ailing ballplayers still left...
...draft board of Rocky Mount, N.C. (pop. 14,919) last week had apparently succeeded in drafting the town's No. 1 citizen, Band Leader Kay Kyser ("the old Professor of Musical Knowledge...
...spite of this showing, the Presidential Appeal Board last week backed Rocky Mount's draft board in its effort to put a uniform on Kay Kyser. Drawled the Professor (who is nearly blind without glasses, stumbles from a trick knee): "This puts me on a real spot. If ah pass the physical and they give me a band job, people will all say ah've got a soft touch. If ah don't, they'll swear it was a put-up job. Ah hope they give me a job fighting...
...full-time enrolled students (before the draft: more than 26,000), all tuition-free except for out-of-staters...
Results: In 1940, 2,000 students milled at the university gates to protest the draft. In 1941 they voted 2-to-1 for the draft and aid to Britain, heaved out the Communist-infected American Students Union. California gold might have bought the president of Oxford, but hardly a more imaginative executive than Robert Gordon Sproul...