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...ages of 21 and 31. Conceived by Army Provost Marshal General Enoch H. Crowder, the drawing was made in Washington from 10,500 numbered slips of paper (10,500 was the largest number of registrants signed up with any single local board). The first number pulled from the fishbowl was 258, and every registrant with that number was called. In all, 1,374,000 men took physical exams; 70% passed and then got seven days to file exemptions claims. By December, 516,000 draftees had been selected and were already in training, with relatively few complaints...
...walking past the Bick about 5 in the afternoon and this just incredibly happy looking guy in the fishbowl beckons...
...Midlands accent, was the No. 1 bestseller last week. Right behind it was Count Me In by Gary Lewis and the Playboys. Gary is Comedian Jerry Lewis' son. Unfortunately, he favors an overdose of echo-chamber effect, which makes him sound as if he had his head inside a fishbowl...
...vantage point for supervising activity in the children's living room on the lower level. A little balcony juts out at the end of a short passageway alongside the fireplace, saving steps and making family togetherness a practical matter. Says the architect: "You can go from nest to fishbowl to cave in a few steps. The house has endless variety...
...next night Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy appeared on TV for an hour-long intimate glimpse, taped earlier by NBC and sponsored by Crest toothpaste (thereby causing wags to wonder if Ipana, Stripe and Pepsodent would demand equal time). The First Lady won headlines with her plaint that the fishbowl life of the White House was "very hard" on the children, that she was striving to provide "normal" and "private" lives for them. As for daughter Caroline, "Someday she is going to have to go to school, and if she is in the papers all the time, that will affect...