Word: lewes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After two very close rounds, Jim Raffl, of Kirkland, poured on the heat to cop the 135 lb. decision from Johnny Frenning of Leverett. In what looked like a preview of the House wrestling tournament which is to take place next week, Gordie chase of Leverett, defeated Kirkland's Lew Krohn in the 145 lb final...
Classed as objectors willing to accept noncombatant duties (1-A-O)-ambulance drivers, stretcher-bearers, etc.-were 6,577 others. (Most famous 1-A-O: Cinemactor Lew Ayres.) In prison for draft-law violations were between 1,000 and 1,300 avowed conscientious objectors, half of them members of Jehovah's Witnesses, whose claims did not get draft-board recognition...
...Department's Business Structure & Operations Unit, said the average small retailer "can't realize what lies ahead, since most of them have fairly satisfactory supplies on hand, but replacement difficulties will be constantly greater from now on." All this gloom got on the nerves of urbane Lew Hahn, general manager of National Retail Dry Goods Association and a patron saint of retailing. Said he indignantly: "The smaller merchant would like to know how to keep alive rather than how to have a fancy death...
Innovator. Since February, when he was asked to serve as an adviser to Land, Douglas has been butting his head against walls, aching for authority. Arizona-born, 47-year-old Lew Douglas admits that the only ships he knows very much about are prairie schooners. But he is versatile. He had never been in the Army before, but as an artillery lieutenant he won a citation from General Pershing during World War I. He had never been a Federal budget director before he went in for Franklin Roosevelt-then broke with him when the President paid no attention to balancing...
Pronounced overweight at the first examination, he shed 36 lb. in a month, got down to 200. Newly-commissioned Major Alvin York began thinking of running for Congress. Lew Ayres, reclassified to 1-A-O (noncombatant work), left the conscientious objectors' camp at Wyeth, Ore., to report for duty with an Army Medical Corps unit. This work, said he, was "just what I've always wanted to do." He emphasized that his c.o. ideas remained unchanged...