Word: serialization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raced away for a 20-yard touchdown jaunt against Hobart, Tom Mulroy, Obie Slingerland and Perry Sawyer is also available. Blood seems to have answered the Jeffs' kicking problem while Sweeny and Slingerland, the latter out of action all last year due to scholastic deficlencies, took care of the serial display. Mulroy, also forced to serve as bench ballast in '39 by injuries, seems destined to reach the peak predicted for him last year, turning in a brilliant bit of work against Hobart...
Five days later, local boards will assign a serial number to each registrant (thousands will have the same number). Then follows lottery day, when a suitable dignitary (Franklin Roosevelt, for instance) will reach into the same glass bowl from which the first World War I number (258) was drawn in 1917, will pull out one of thousands of jumbled capsules. Each capsule will contain a numbered slip. Registrants holding the drawn numbers will be the first to receive detailed questionnaires, probing into every aspect of jobs, dependents, special qualifications, reasons (if any) for requesting exemption. Other lotteries will follow...
...most of the onlookers (and the far-flung radio listeners as well) it was like picking up the threads of a serial. But they got their bearings quickly. Before the giant clock had registered three-and-a-half minutes, Southern California's Ambrose Schindler, hero of last winter's Rose Bowl game, was up to his old tricks. Intercepting a forward pass, he scooted 40 yards to the Packers' 17-yard line, plunged over for a touchdown three plays later. A successful drop kick for the extra point was made by Halfback Nile Kinnick, the passing, punting...
Digging itself out of a blizzard of box tops (or any reasonable facsimile thereof), Procter & Gamble will resolve this week a contest started last month on its "Life Can Be Beautiful" serial show, award ten Pontiacs, 10,000 gallons of gas, $2,000 in cash to those who have best stated in 25 words or less the case for Ivory Flakes. In this contest, as in many another, 24-year-old Niles Eggleston of Milford, N. Y. had played a quiet but important role. As the proprietor of a box-top brokerage known as "Eggleston Enterprise," he is the toddling...
...Dramatic serial: One Man's Family...