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...Time for the Law. Will Grant's life has been unorthodox. Working his way through Southern Methodist University (1924-28), he sold so much advertising for the students' annual April Fool paper (he made $1,000 for himself in two weeks) that the University abolished the paper, on the grounds that big business was not a suitable student endeavor. He went on to law school at Texas University, where he became so engrossed in earning his keep that he never got around to becoming a lawyer...
...Keeffe decided she was "a very stupid fool" not to paint just as she wished, sent a roll of sketches to a friend in Manhattan on the "express condition that they were not to be shown to anyone." The friend promptly showed them to Dealer Alfred Stieglitz (TIME, Jan. 11). He gave an exhibition of O'Keeffe in his "291" gallery, persuaded her to devote all her time to painting, married her eight years later. Her first sale brought $400. In 1928 she got $25,000 for five paintings of lilies. She once sold a single picture...
...psychopath with normal intelligence anxious to get into the Army may, in his few minutes with a psychiatrist at the induction center, fool him completely. But draft-board members in a small community may know that he is a heavy drinker, or has attacked girls, or never keeps a job, or is a thief. In the Army such a man will sometimes win a medal through sheer love of action. More often he is the man who is A.W.O.L. With his quick suggestibility he spreads rumors. He may even sell out to the enemy...
...manic depressive between attacks of depression or elation may fool an Army psychiatrist on a quick test. But a draft board member who remembers how George sometimes got so blue that he never went out, sometimes got so high that he ran himself and his relatives into debt on a buying spree, can save the Army & Navy lot of trouble by insisting that George be kept at home...
...Luce's cohorts are right, then the Axis has nothing to fear from America's younger generation. If it takes a uniform and a top sergeant and a U.S.O. dance to make a college student aware of the responsibilities he faces; if he can fool around without a serious thought in his head until his draft notice catches up with him--then Hitler's war aganst the unity of this country is already...