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...University of Chicago, outlined a program for American education in this week's issue of the Saturday Evening Post. The article, entitled "Blueprint for American Education," called for modification of existing Reserve programs, payment of reserve officers while in college, and the immediate lowering of the draft age to eighteen, combined with the abolition of all volunteering...
...first step in any such program is to eliminate the ambiguity in the college man's status by lowering the draft age to eighteen and abandoning volunteering. This would make it possible to place all men where they could best be used and to eliminate all students who do not belong in college, Hutchins stated...
...Eighteen-year-old King Peter of Yugoslavia arrived by plane in Washington, looked forward to: 1) talking with President Roosevelt; 2) watching airplane production; 3) driving a jeep; 4) playing baseball. It turned out that he had something else to look forward to, but a war-long wait lay ahead. When it's over he will marry pretty Princess Alexandra of Greece...
...hundred and eighteen students enrolled in ROTC have signed up in the 18-month intensified course in Business Administration; 350 men in the Army Quartermaster Corps and Naval Supply are participating in the 12-month Industrial Administration course; and 16 men, most of whom are in low draft categories for reasons of physical condition, have signed up for the regular program for the Master of Business Administration degree...
...manufacturers, merchants or housewives have yet heard of Masslinn. Last week its proud maker, Johnson & Johnson (surgical dressings), explained why: the wonder baby had literally been snatched from the cradle and hastened off to war. Eighteen months ago it made a modest debut in Chux, a disposable diaper; before it could appear in sheets, window draperies, table cloths, wall paper, wire insulation, Masslinn was abruptly withdrawn from the market and production (now running about 800,000 yards per month) converted totally to Army & Navy needs...