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...Back Bayer was a young (26) poet, Robert Traill Spence Lowell Jr., son of a retired naval commander, scion of a famed family with members in every war since the Revolution. No ordinary conscientious objector, Lowell twice tried to enlist, later reversed his views because he decided the bombings of total war are unethical. So he refused to serve "as a matter of principle." He was sentenced to a year and a day in Federal prison...
...over the red clay roads of his 20-mile district, Dr. Newman drives day & night, sometimes with his pretty, brown-eyed wife beside him, delivering the amazingly numerous offspring of his philoprogenitive constituents. (When he tried to enlist in the Army, he was firmly turned down as indispensable where he was.) It is not uncommon for him to deliver three babies in twelve hours...
Progressive Conservative Leader George Alexander Drew, socialite son-in-law of the Metropolitan Opera Company's Manager Edward Johnson, planned to form a government with himself as Premier, may be forced to enlist straggling Liberals. Ready to step aside was Premier Harry C. Nixon, whose campaign testimonial, "Come what may, I am behind Mackenzie King," proved a boomerang...
Last week sponsors of B2H2 bluntly served notice that they would demand debate on their resolution when Congress returns this autumn. Then they announced a bold and backbreaking plan to enlist popular support. Throughout the heat of July and August, eight teams of Congressmen-one Democrat and one Republican to a team-will stump 26 States in favor of B2H2. Republican Joe Ball, teamed with Tennessee's Representative Albert Gore, started the tour this week on the West Coast. Besides the other three authors of B2H2, the teams include, from the Senate: Missouri's Truman, Michigan...
...announcement unique last Tuesday morning? "I am pleased to announced that Mr. Custer has lost his hat and Mr. Unwin has begat himself a seven pound daughter." Congratulations, Ed, damn good cigars. Nice breaking the trend toward sons. Who's gonna drive the street cars if all our newborn enlist in V-12? How about that Frank P, "Jake...