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...student signing up in either the Army or the Navy under this arrangement must complete the course in electronics at his own expense. It should be understood that under present rules as to deferment under the draft there is no positive assurance that any student will be able to complete the course in electronics unless he is in either the Army or the Navy program for such students...
...exotic leading lady, Sherman B. Cawley, will disappoint his public in the coming showing of "Blondes For Defense"--he didn't convince the draft board...
Dealing with hypnotism in the O.P.M. and featuring a "Star Spangled Banner" chorus of 16, a pastoral ballet, and a boogie woogie stomp, the show will leave for Fort Devens after its opening at the club, and Cawley may see Whitemore play the role the draft board didn't think he fitted...
...Tribune immediately dubbed "Small Potatoes" McKeough, is no ball of fire. In his seven years in Congress he has sponsored no important legislation, has made few speeches on the floor, has rubber-stamped all New Deal legislation, with only one painful exception: he voted last August against extending the draft. He has saved his slambang oratory so exclusively for Cook County that he is relatively unknown downstate, even to most party leaders. His only opposition...
...week's action proved that the Axis had embarked on more than a hit-&-run transatlantic raid, had won the first round of the battle of the Caribbean. Aruba was shelled twice (without material damage to the refinery). The raiders had accounted for seven of the shallow-draft tankers that carry oil from the Lake of Maracaibo to the islands. They had sunk four big ocean tankers, had put torpedoes into two freighters anchored off Trinidad. Total Axis casualties: three submarines, probably (but not positively) sunk by depth charges off Aruba...