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Fishbowl v. Pickle Jar...
...that the historic jar rushed from Philadelphia's Independence Hall to Washington with so much ceremony for the draft lottery was not the one used in 1917? In History of the World War by Frank H. Simonds, Vol. IV, p. 41, there is a photograph entitled "Drawing the First Number" purporting to show Secretary of War Baker pulling out the first of 10,500 capsules. However, the jar is definitely not the one illustrated in TIME, Nov. 11. Mr. Baker's 1917 jar is shaped like a fishbowl and has a small mouth whereas the jar shown...
...TIME did not err; the picture in Simonds' history is miscaptioned. The bowl pictured in TIME, resembling a pickle jar, which was used for the 1940 drawing, was the one used for the first drawing in 1917. Pictures were taken of Secretary Newton D. Baker taking out the first number, but they were not good. By the time of the second drawing in June, 1918, the pickle jar had already been installed in Philadelphia's Independence Hall. So for the second drawing a fishbowl was obtained and used, and Secretary Baker was again first...
...course. Colgate made some pretence that the Duke's performance was-ah-cultural. But to 1,450 students, faculty members and townspeople who crowded the chapel, no such excuse was necessary. The audience would have rocked the joint, had not the Colgate Maroon warned beforehand that stamping might jar loose the three-and-a-half-ton ceiling of the chapel...
...iron permits a stiff rocking motion, which does not jar the leg. Cast and iron are removed after eight weeks. The pins are pulled out painlessly with pliers...