Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League yesterday selected Dick Clasby, captain of last year's football team, as one of its early draft choices. The Eagles, who finished second to the Cleveland Browns in the Eastern Division of the league last season, passed up many publicized All-American players to concentrate on passers and rugged runners such as Clasby and Dartmouth's Dave McLaughlin. Clasby was not available last night for comment...
Apples on the Desk. In World War II, Fanfani escaped Mussolini's draft by fleeing to Switzerland, where (together with Italian President Luigi Einaudi) he taught Italian students in internment camps. Ambitious, aggressive and a disciplinarian (he says he believes in authority, efficiency, and the Sermon on the Mount), Fanfani after the war, took on a succession of ministries under Premier Alcide de Gasperi. As Minister of Labor, he developed the "Fanfani house" program which so far has produced more than 7,700 government-built workers' homes; he put 200,000 of Italy's many unemployed...
...daily Pantagraph carried this classified ad: "HIGHLY INTELLIGENT fellow . . . lazy, unreliable young man who chews tobacco, has three small children to feed, wants highly paid executive position . . ." Payoff. In Miami, when FBI agents nabbed him, Essex Robinson asked what he was charged with, learned he was wanted for draft evasion, exclaimed: "Oh, is that it? I heard you were after me, so I hurried right down and paid that overdue bill at the clothing store...
...illogical for a country that prizes education enough to offer college students draft deferments to turn about and hinder their attempts at partial self-support. President Eisenhower seems to agree. He has proposed that a student be considered a legitimate tax exemption regardless of the size of his own income, providing that be actually receives support from home. Naturally, he would continue to pay a tax on carnings above...
...presses last week was the commission's final report, a preliminary draft of which has already been circulated among Holy Trinity's parishioners and sent to clergymen throughout the country. After examining "present-day funeral practice," the commission came to the conclusion "that the historic depths of Christian meaning are increasingly lost to the American, even the regular churchgoer, and that without the interpretation and dramatic support of the simple rites of the church, to receive whatever solace and comfort is available in the despair of death, more and more people look to the funeral director as pastor...