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...afternoon last week, on the stage of Washington's Departmental Auditorium, Brigadier General Lewis Elaine Hershey dipped his hairy hand into a brown wastebasket. He plucked out a cobalt-blue capsule, thrust it behind his back. A brunette young woman snatched the capsule, shook out a piece of paper, handed the paper to a blonde. The blonde attached the paper to a white card, passed the card to a male announcer at a microphone. The announcer spoke meaningless words (for practice) into the microphone, handed the card to a Boy Scout. The Boy Scout slipped it to another...
Just before noon next day, Brigadier General Hershey's brunettes, blondes, Boy Scouts and young men took their places...
...wastebasket had been replaced by the huge glass jar from which draft numbers were drawn in 1917. Photographers' lights beat upon 8,994* blue capsules in the jar, shedding a blue radiance on the stage. Selective Service Director Clarence Addison Dykstra and Brigadier General Hershey walked in. Slowly behind them came President Roosevelt, on the arm of his secretary "Pa" Watson. The blue-suited President looked tired, grey, exhausted by his campaign. Said he to the nation (paraphrasing a favorite phrase of Wendell Willkie) and to the 17,000,000 registrants who were about to have their numbers drawn...
...other dignitaries, who drew the next 18 registration serial numbers (192, 8,239, 6,620, 6,685, 4,779, 8,848, 6,262, 8,130, 5,892, 5,837, 5,485, 6,604, 8,946, 5,375, 7,674, 4,880, 4,928, 105). Then Brigadier General Hershey's crew took over, finished the job. It took them until 5:48 a.m. next day. Out over the U. S., by radio and news ticker, the numbers flowed, establishing the "national master list," which along with personal and local circumstances would determine the order in which...
...Hershey, party hack and former State's attorney...