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Nehru & Gandhi. There are some who believe that if Nehru had not played Hamlet to Gandhi's ghost, a compromise might have been effected before the latest call for civil disobedience. But past attempts by Nehru to enlist the services of the United Nations for a solution have ended in blind alleys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Nehru Never Wins | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...stated. Instead inter-service competition has lowered all Reserve requirements without regard to necessary qualifications. At the same time drives to get volunteers from college age groups raise doubts in the minds of all those told, on the one hand, to remain in college, and, on the other, to enlist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hutchins Asks 18 Year Draft, No Volunteers | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

Cinemactor Ramon Novarro, now 37, asked Mexico's Congress for permission to enlist in the U.S. Army. Novarro, who never became a U.S. citizen, would automatically lose his Mexican citizenship if he enlisted without permission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 17, 1942 | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

Clark Gable, 41, was all set to enlist as a private in the Army Air Forces. His aim: a gunner's post. Columnist Hedda ("The Gabbler") Hopper promptly announced that because of an old agreement this meant Robert Taylor and Spencer Tracy would also enlist at the same time. Meantime Gable m.c.'d a War Department short-wave broadcast for the armed forces abroad, helped Mather Field's Army Air Forces Lieut. Jimmy Stewart overwhelm goggle-eyed Torcheuse Dinah Shore, in Hollywood for a screen career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 17, 1942 | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

Plans to distribute college physicists effectively between the services and industrial research are almost completely non-existent. Although high-frequency men can enlist in the Signal Corps Reserve, no provision has been made for other science concentrators who must fill the many semitechnical jobs in both combatant and noncombatant fields. Badly needed in industrial and government laboratories, even the cream of the electronics crop is at a loss for a clear-cut route to these jobs and the resulting uncertainty has seriously curtailed the available supply of these vital...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Give Us the Blueprints IV | 8/5/1942 | See Source »

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