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...does Mr. Cole (TIME, Jan. 27) think criminals do not cherish their liberty? . . . If I were allowed to enlist in the U. S. Navy, I'm sure the lesson I have learned would greatly benefit those whom Professor John B. Waite [who deplored the exclusion of criminals from Selective Service training-TIME, Dec. 30] speaks of. Yes, I know CRIME DOES...
...until 3 a.m. on blueprints, the general manager of Scripto Manufacturing Co., which has orders for shell fuse-boosters, confided: "My wife and the wives of the other management men are threatening to divorce us because they never see us. If I were ten years younger, I'd enlist as a buck private and let somebody else worry about all this...
...even the severest critic of pomp & circumstance could accuse the Troop of being mere dress-up soldiers. On the staff of its guidon are silver bands for service in major battles from Trenton and Princeton in the Revolution to the Meuse-Argonne in World War I. Regular National Guard enlistment is for three years; City Troopers enlist for seven. Rookies find advancement slow, the selection of officers meticulous. No man can hope to become a corporal before eight years, a sergeant before ten. John C. Groome Jr., a coal company president who was the Troop's captain until...
...third time, lurching, monolithic Primo Camera, who pushed his way to the world's boxing championship seven years ago, was rejected for service in the Italian Army. Heavyweight Camera tried to enlist as a parachutist, was told no ordinary parachute would float his 292 pounds...
...Shirley, Tenn., a slight, brown-eyed farm boy bade his widowed mother, Postmistress Daily Hull, goodby, hitchhiked 90 miles to Knoxville to enlist in the U. S. Army. Told because he was only 20 that he needed his parent's consent, he hitchhiked home, returned to say: "Mother didn't exactly want me to sign up, but she didn't make much of a fuss. Most every family in our [Fentress] county has had one volunteer. . . ." Then taken by a grinning Army sergeant to Fort McPherson, Ga., Private Elbert Lee Hull was sworn into the Army, explained...