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...Seattle last week, a convention of the potent, closed-shop American Federation of Musicians unanimously blew a corporate kiss to its boss, James Caesar Petrillo. Blanket approval was voted for all of Boss Petrillo's executive acts of the year past...
...feet, with heels and toes stretching beyond the mattress, are set squarely against the footboard. Thus he exercises the muscular reflexes used for standing up. His arms are kept at his side, his knees straight. No splints or casts are used. Hot packs made of pieces of blanket wrung out of boiling water are laid on his paralyzed limbs. The packs are usually changed every two hours, every half hour in very serious cases...
...substitute for dramatic action. Out of the tiresome rhetoric, the pretty posturing of Blood and Sand only the bullfight scenes stand out. One of them is magnificent: a little Mexican boy named Jesús Angel, clad in a breech clout, armed solely with a white horse blanket, hazing a big black bull around a practice plaza de toros in the moonlight...
...July 1 the blanket deferment which has given all college men of the class of 1941 a chance to complete their college education ends. From now on Joe College goes into the Army when his number comes up just as any other young American does--unless his local draft board on the basis of information from his college decides that he is of more service to the country on the campus than in a camp...
...record is consulted and unless there is good evidence that he has the ability to complete the course with a high enough standing to justify expectations that he will really fill the need in his field, there will be no exemption granted. Even for medical students there isn't blanket deferment--each case is decided individually and locally. Those who register in July, then, as well as registrants who will be reclassified, must study their home area as well as their bluebook postcards in trying to predict the length of the remainder of their scholastic life...