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Resigned Shrug. Equally memorable in TV's gallery was grey-haired, impeccable Joe Adonis, who needed only a highball to pose as a gentleman of distinction; pudgy Bookmaker Frank Erickson, who never got beyond the fourth grade ("I refuse to answer on the grounds that it might intend to criminate me"); Water Commissioner James J. Moran, a granite-jawed Irishman clearly following some elaborate, personal code of honor that the common run of mankind would never comprehend; and the virulent clash of words and wills between New York's ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer and Senator Charles...
...Massachusetts state board has recommended that local boards defer college students on three bases, Feeney said. They must have completed their freshman year, be in the upper half of their class, and intend to continue their college career. He added that the local boards were not obligated to issue deferments for these reasons...
...campus at Winter Park, Fla. A recent executive of Chicago's camera-building Bell & Howell Co., Wagner (University of Chicago, '38) was full of ideas about using the new audio-visual teaching devices developed by the armed forces in World War II. Said he: "If our teachers intend to compete with movies, television and comic books, they will have to use the tools of our times...
...During World War II, the Treasury importuned me several times to act as runner for a swindle which it was operating . . . [i.e.) the sale of Government bonds]." But Pegler did not intend to make the same mistake again: "In honesty, I can't, because the value of the dollar is going steadily down . . . The dollar ... is so cheap now that it won't buy a meal in a second-rate restaurant ... Is it terribly unpatriotic of me to go on this way, disillusioning our people about Government bonds...
...drafting 18-year-olds would let men who plan to attend college "get their military service over with" before they begin their studies, he said. At the same time, added Conant, it would draft those who intend to enter industry, before they reach vital jobs from which they would later be keenly missed...