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Congress lowering of the draft age to 18 cleared the college air. College officials, who had decided that any policy, however tough, was better than no policy, applauded. If the youth draft did not settle the wartime fate of the 1,700 U.S. colleges (enrollment: about 1,120,000), it set the stage for a settlement. Cleared up was the question: who would go to college-only men in uniform and the physically unfit. A battle over a big remaining question began behind closed doors in Washington: Who would run the colleges, the Army & Navy or civilians...
...hollow of Jimmy Byrnes's hand lies the fate of the U.S. war economy. Fortunately it is a competent hand, firm, fair and facile. In ten years in the Senate, Czar Byrnes had learned the value of operating quietly. Many a time, when it seemed as if there would be a knockdown Senatorial battle, Jimmy Byrnes got the fight called off. He hopes to work the same way in his newer, tougher...
Last week an air of great decision hung over Washington. To some it even seemed that the commanders and civilians who hold the fate of the U.S. in their hands had decided at last "how the U.S. is going to fight...
...girl (Mary Rolfe) and his family to become a soldier. Quizz goes to training camp and then to war, and, on a tiny island in the Pacific, is part of a gallant, malaria-ridden remnant that face war's horror, enact its heroism and succumb to its fate...
...good job. Outstanding is the first meeting between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, who have been corresponding for over a year but have been prevented from meeting by her tyrannical father. Having read each others' poems, each has formed opinions of the other, and upon this meeting depends the fate of their idyllic dream castles. Here is a situation that would try any actor. John Alcorn makes the most of the opportunity and plays his part to perfection...