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...first time in the history of Selective Service, future soldiers will not be picked out of a goldfish bowl. Except for the 20-year-olds, men will be listed in order of their birthdays, and questionnaires will go out to them in that order...
...repairing broken-down equipment with bailing wire and tweezers. The only way they kept alive at all was on small specialty jobsקike keeping the tenants from moving out of an apartment house en masse because of radio static, whose source they finally traced to the thermostat in a goldfish bowl. But they learned as much about static as anyone else...
...tank of water, the other sinking (after the detergent had been added to the water). This week I received from book publishers William Morrow and Co. an advance copy of a mystery novel, The Case of the Drowning Duck. The jacket shows a duck expiring in a goldfish bowl and has a note from the publishers saying that Erie Stanley Gardner, the author, was inspired by TIME'S item. TIME Marched On, fast...
They will dip into the goldfish bowl for the third time in Washington this week. They will fish out, one by one, 8,000 to 9,000 capsules, containing the numbers that will determine the order of induction into the U.S. Army of the 9,000,000 men who signed up in the Third Registration. Early numbers will mean a call to arms some time in June. Meanwhile the Army will pick & choose from among the 17,500,000 registrants of 1940-41. Last week many a registrant, teetering uneasily between mufti and khaki, was confused about the future...
Last week, darting like a goldfish through the layout of 40 "gates"-including hair-raising hairpin turns, flushes (S curves) and right-angle elbows-Miss Shaw was clocked in the breath-taking time of i min. 44.4 sec. On the same f-mile slalom course earlier in the day, ten top-flight men skiers had competed in Lake Placid's annual Washington's Birthday ski meet. Only three of them had chalked up better time than Miss Shaw's (winning time...