Word: mcnamara
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...McNamara's boss, General John Hershey, Director of Selective Service gets his quotas direct from Hannah. Inasmuch as Hannah feels that the Army will continue to gobble up most of next year's draft eligibles, and since the current Bill permits Selective Service through June 30, 1955, the draft seems sure to run at least until then...
...soon may be drafting for the Air Force and Marines," warned Col. William G. McNamara, Selective Service Information Officer. McNamara was contacted by the CRIMSON after the Boston American headlines yesterday reading. "Draft Ends Soon." The paper's article based its optimism on a reduction in the size of the Army and its partial replacement by a stronger Air Force...
...July quota is 24,000, and we expect to induct 28,000 men a month before the summer is over," McNamara continued. "To assume that a smaller defense role by the Army means the end of the draft," he contended, "omits many other important considerations...
...boys scared into the Air Force four years ago, during the Army's tough days in Korea, will be getting out this summer, and they aren't being replaced. The Air Force has fallen behind in its enlistment quotas for the last three months," McNamara added, "and it looks as though something will have to be done...
...active boy a broken arm is bad enough, but when Terry McNamara broke his right arm he was completely disabled. He had been born with no fingers on his left hand-"nothing but little buttons." in the words of Patrick Clarkson, one of Britain's ranking plastic surgeons. But the broken arm proved to be a good thing for Terry in the long run: his mother, who runs a fruit stand in the grubby Elephant & Castle area of South London, took him to Guy's Hospital. There. Surgeon Clarkson saw him and got an idea...