Word: hershey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military Ready Reserve (including National Guardsmen) from the draft. Previously, draft-age (18½ to 26) Ready Reservists were subject to call if they had not had two years of active duty under Selective Service. The order came on the advice of Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey, who told the President that recent small monthly draft calls have left available a large pool of non-reserve men for 1-A classification...
...Bill Martin again became a national symbol-this time at $21 a month. In one of the first New York groups to be drafted, Martin, then a bachelor, went good-humoredly off to Fort Dix, helping, as Selective Service Boss General Lewis B. Hershey said, "to convince people that we were dealing off the top of the deck it helped to have some aces and kings come off as well as deuces." Martin was a full colonel when discharged...
...annual Saturday afternoon consolidation battle for the Eastern championship, St. Lawrence buried Boston College, 6 to 2. The prospects for next year are much the same. With its entire team returning, including the goalie who two years ago turned down a contract with the professional Hershey (Pa.) Bears, Michigan should again reach the finals, facing either St. Lawrence, R.P.I. or Harvard. B.C., meanwhile, will renew its annual feud with...
...diehard devotion of little Wally Wronken. A character who warms Marjorie's heart, and the reader's, is her uncle, Samson-Aaron, a robustious clown, a seam-splitting glutton, and a lovable dead-beat ("But a nickel, Modgerie, a nickel I always had, to buy you a Hershey bar ven I came to this house"). In his simple way, he shows Marjorie how close she really is to the faith she once brashly dismissed as a Stone Age relic...
Michigan fans report that Howes was trying out with the Hershey, Pa., Bears, of the American Hockey League last fall. He quit suddenly, without telling the Hershey coach, to register at college. The professional team's scouts quickly traced him to the university to find out what had happened to their "promising prospect...