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...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...
Irving M. Fried '42, Strafford, Pa.; Frank S. Fuesner '42, Cincinnati, Ohio.; William Gay '41, New Hartford, Conn.; Viasios Georgian '41, North Quincy, Mass.; Thomas P. Glym '42, Colebrook, Conn.; Edwin B. Good all Jr. '41, Newton Center, Mass...
Only the strong may continue to live in freedom and in peace." Secretary of War Henry Lewis Stimson, 73, stepped to the jar. Fragile, twittery Lieut. Colonel (retired) Charles R. Morris, who blindfolded Newton D. Baker for the first draft drawings of World War I, did the same for Mr. Stimson (with a bandage made from the cover of a chair in Independence Hall, sanitized with a sheet of Kleenex). Secretary Stimson gingerly put his left hand in the jar, took the first capsule he touched, handed it to Mr. Roosevelt. The President, old stager that he was, glanced...
JANIE JOHNSTON Newton, Kans...
Stephen P. Mallett, Jr. '44, will lead the Freshman football team in its two remaining games of the season. Mallett, who lives in Stoughton Hall and come from West Newton, was chosen in an election yesterday to captain Chief Boston's charges...