Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the outset of his Administration, President Eisenhower made it clear that he did not want yes men in his Cabinet. Before he took office, he met with his Cabinet members-designate in Manhattan's Commodore Hotel and read to them a draft of his inaugural speech. When they applauded (cried Charlie Wilson: "You flew the flag! It was wonderful!), Ike said: "I read it far more for your blue pencils than I did for your applause...
...colors, and I paint it. People can't change it. You can do that kind of painting if you have courage." For four years Rickey managed only to smudge the canvas. As quick as his new, young players signed up, they were whisked away by the draft. While Rickey pondered over his paints, Pirate fans took up chess and bird watching. Last year the team showed some improvement, but the old man had had enough. He resigned, became an offstage adviser, and new men came in to finish the job. Joe L. Brown, 37, son of Comedian...
British law recognizes divorce; priests of England's state church are thus legally entitled-like other ministers-to remarry divorced people. But if they do, they face a growing current of conservatism within the Church of England. The draft of a canon flatly prohibiting remarriage of the divorced has long been creeping through official Anglican channels on its way to becoming church law, and last month it reached the Convocation of Canterbury. With Parliament the ultimate stop, the Archbishop of Canterbury felt it prudent to raise a warning hand...
...that she had married a British radio officer, had not heard from him and wanted a divorce. The Angel cabled the mission in Glasgow, the husband's home port, which in turn located the ship in Asia, where a third Angel sat down with the husband, helped him draft appropriate letters to his wife, which (with the African Angel's help) assured a happy ending...
Andy Sheaffer, the hero, is a goldbrick long before he gets to the induction center. His gentlemanly marks at U.C.L.A. are designed to "keep the draft board happy without exciting envy and jealousy among my schoolmates." Andy figures he can work the student ploy right through law school and tool past the draft-age barrier of 26, preferably in his cozy little MG. But he underestimates the power of a woman. His girl Susan cannot stand a slacker. Or as she puts it to Andy: "Everything with you is cotton candy." The Cotton Candy Kid is so flummoxed by this...