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Last week, burbling Cinemactress Billie Burke was called into the studio to pick a name out of a fishbowl. The name happened to belong to Mrs. Edgar Parrett, 56, of Shiprock, N. Mex. That was how Mrs. Parrett became "Queen for a Day" and the winner of a staggering $35,000 assortment of prizes, the biggest, of course, in radio history-at least for a few weeks...
Died. Lieut. Colonel (ret.) Charles Robert Morris, 67, deviser of the pellets-in-a-fishbowl process of drawing the first draft numbers; in Lebanon, N.J. He blindfolded Pellet-Picker Newton D. Baker in the first drawing of World War I, blindfolded Henry L. Stimson in World War II. History-minded, he used the same blindfold in both drawings...
According to the orchestra leader, the modern trend is away from "loud, brassy arrangements" and towards a softer and more musical style. The drive and power which the new ensemble produces more than compensates for the lack of brass. "Down Beat," oracle of the swing world, says "the amazing fishbowl-less Shep Fields band--debuted at the Chicago and surprised local...
...announcement came as a fitting ending to a hectic day for Newman, which had opened with his topping the list of Harvard eligibles in the recent draft lottery. His serial number, 1103, was the second local capsule to be drawn from the fishbowl...
...Pictures were taken of Secretary Newton D. Baker taking out the first number, but they were not good. By the time of the second drawing in June, 1918, the pickle jar had already been installed in Philadelphia's Independence Hall. So for the second drawing a fishbowl was obtained and used, and Secretary Baker was again first to put in his hand. Pictures of this second drawing were so good that they leaked into history books with captions indicating it was the first...