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Deputy. In Newark, the FBI arrested Anthony Steven Profetto, 20, after Profetto, to evade Selective Service, sent a one-legged friend to substitute for him m a draft-board physical...
...veteran and reserve officer, prospering as a contractor. He sees a young employee go off to the army and death in battle. He watches while the draft board takes his brother (Farley Granger) in the midst of a juvenile romance with the daughter (Peggy Dow) of the draft-board chairman...
Dudgeon. In Middletown, Conn., Angelo Salafia, classified IA, was fined $100 for painting on his draft-board chairman's sidewalk: "Connell-what have you done for the war effort...
Classed as objectors willing to accept noncombatant duties (1-A-O)-ambulance drivers, stretcher-bearers, etc.-were 6,577 others. (Most famous 1-A-O: Cinemactor Lew Ayres.) In prison for draft-law violations were between 1,000 and 1,300 avowed conscientious objectors, half of them members of Jehovah's Witnesses, whose claims did not get draft-board recognition...
...psychopath with normal intelligence anxious to get into the Army may, in his few minutes with a psychiatrist at the induction center, fool him completely. But draft-board members in a small community may know that he is a heavy drinker, or has attacked girls, or never keeps a job, or is a thief. In the Army such a man will sometimes win a medal through sheer love of action. More often he is the man who is A.W.O.L. With his quick suggestibility he spreads rumors. He may even sell out to the enemy...