Last week the long, leveling hand of the draft reached out for many a young man with a big name. Henry Ford II, 23, and his brother Benson, 21, due for early "call in Detroit, made no demurrers of the kind which kept their father Edsel at home (working at war materials) in 1917.
Cinemactor Jimmy Stewart gorged himself up to Army weight, was told he would be called this month (his Los Angeles draft board had previously found him 10 lb. underweightTIME, Feb. 17). Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes's grandson Henry Stuart Hughes quit the Brown University faculty (history),...
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