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...Army he led a pack artillery mule at Ft. Bragg for a year, and then was shifted to public relations. He wrote "Caught in the Draft" for the Post and became friendly with Private Marion Hargrove, who was assigned to Yank as soon as it was organized last spring. Then for weeks on end Hargrove annoyed Major Spence to call up McCarthy as sports editor for the new weekly...
Died. Colonel Clinton Roy Dickinson, 54, longtime chief editorialist of the advertising world, short-story writer, for the past year executive assistant to Draft Director Hershey; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington. Through advertising's No. 1 tradepaper, Printers' Ink, Editor Dickinson plumped for honesty, dignity, decency in advertising, was an influential booster and lambaster...
...Caribou, Me., the draft board reclassified John W. Keene I-A before it learned that he was: 1) 90, 2) blind...
From the House Naval Committee Lyndon Johnson rushed a "work or fight" bill. His plan: i) let every Navy Yard report worker absences to its local draft board; 2) let every board decide whether the employe should work or fight; 3) if the plan works in shipyards, extend it to every other war industry...
...directive states that such full-time students will be eligible for deferment if they are in good standing and receive a certificate that they are "competent." The statement is, however, only advisory, for local boards must still consider applications Individually. Draft board 47 has heard nothing...