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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week there were no changes in these traditional plans. But the mood of Christmas 1940 was different-in the White House as in many another U. S. home. For the first time the children were scattered-Anna stayed in Seattle, James on the Pacific Coast, John in Boston. Elliott, traveling for the Army, could not get to Washington. Only Franklin Jr., his wife and Franklin Roosevelt III, aged 2½, were on hand as in the past. There were only two children to hang their stockings on the mantelpiece in the President's bedroom-Franklin III and Harry...
...that the historic jar rushed from Philadelphia's Independence Hall to Washington with so much ceremony for the draft lottery was not the one used in 1917? In History of the World War by Frank H. Simonds, Vol. IV, p. 41, there is a photograph entitled "Drawing the First Number" purporting to show Secretary of War Baker pulling out the first of 10,500 capsules. However, the jar is definitely not the one illustrated in TIME, Nov. 11. Mr. Baker's 1917 jar is shaped like a fishbowl and has a small mouth whereas the jar shown...
...TIME did not err; the picture in Simonds' history is miscaptioned. The bowl pictured in TIME, resembling a pickle jar, which was used for the 1940 drawing, was the one used for the first drawing in 1917. Pictures were taken of Secretary Newton D. Baker taking out the first number, but they were not good. By the time of the second drawing in June, 1918, the pickle jar had already been installed in Philadelphia's Independence Hall. So for the second drawing a fishbowl was obtained and used, and Secretary Baker was again first...
...TIME'S account described the first week of mass daylight raids in mid-September, when Londoners' reactions showed they were not yet bomb-hardened. They did undoubtedly harden, and they naturally grew cockier when mass daylight raids stopped after the British defense had rung up high daily scores in planes shot down. Far from cocky is the frank recital below of a man whose home...
Lacking a Gone With the Wind, the book trade still had two notable bestsellers, Kenneth Roberts' Oliver Wiswell and Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. Besides, a Negro, Richard Wright, wrote a best-seller about a Negro, Native Son. Of first novels, the most promising seemed to be Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter...